Since two academics started a program offering undergraduate students a chance to study distinctive fossil specimens, they’ve ...

Paleontologists have determined that the fossil, which has been stored in the museum basement for more than seven decades, ...

Sometime around 210 million years ago, in what is now the badlands of New Mexico, a mudslide froze an ancient ecosystem in ...

A strange crocodile relative that may have shifted from four legs to two is shedding light on convergent evolution and the hidden diversity of Triassic ecosystems. A “peculiar” reptile from the age of ...

A newly studied Triassic reptile, Sonselasuchus cedrus, is upending assumptions about how ancient crocodile relatives moved.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Located in East Greenland's Fleming Fjord Formation, the recently identified 210-million-year-old lungfish burrows provide ...

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 ...