A 215-million-year-old crocodylomorph discovered in the United Kingdom has been identified as a new species, Galahadosuchus jonesi. The fossil, unearthed in 1969 but only recently recognized as ...

Roughly 234 million years ago, Earth’s continents were fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it was on the ...

Paleontologists have long puzzled over how the dinosaurs—originally relatively small and of minor importance to the broader ecosystem—evolved to become the dominant species some 30 million years later ...

A new species of crocodylomorph dating to about 215 million years ago has been described from the U.K. It has been called ...

The end-Cretaceous extinction created space in the ecosystem for birds, but also for mammals. Mammals first evolved from ancestors called therapsids during the late Triassic Period. These were tiny ...

Pterosaurs which dominated the skies of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods first evolved to take to the air in warm and humid conditions during the Late Triassic, a new study suggests. In a ...

The Museum of Texas Tech University houses the largest natural history collection in Texas, featuring exhibits on paleontology, anthropology, art, and more. The museum's paleontology exhibit showcases ...

Artist's impression of Diamantinasaurus matildae, a long-necked sauropod dinosaur. (Travis Tischler via Courthouse News) (CN) — High in the Andes mountains of northwestern Argentina, at an elevation ...

From left to right: Dr. Hirokazu Yukawa, Professor Takafumi Kato, and Curator Kyoko Ikari examine the Triassic fossil-bearing rock that led to the discovery of Japan’s first ichthyosaur from western ...

The Triassic is a geologic period of the Mesozoic Era spanning approximately 252 to 201 million years ago, immediately following the Permian–Triassic mass extinction and preceding the Jurassic. It is ...