Long before mammals dominated the land and even before the most famous dinosaurs appeared, Earth was home to a wide variety ...

Lizards are ancient creatures. They were around before the dinosaurs and persisted long after dinosaurs went extinct. We’ve now found they are 35 million years older than we thought they were.

Technological advancements have brought us many things. For paleontologists, it’s introduced the ability to probe softer material—skin, feathers, scales, and hair—found on fossilized creatures. And ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and the ability to birth live young Riley Black - Science Correspondent Fossils ...

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass extinctions 252 million years ago, not only the dinosaurs but also many other groups ...

Long before dinosaurs became dominant, the Triassic world was ruled by archosaurs whose true behavior is still debated by scientists. Fossil evidence suggests these animals relied on ambush, speed, ...

Using the fossil record and modern cold-blooded critters, paleontologist Kelsey Jenkins recreates the hearing capabilities of ancient animals Jack Tamisiea During the Late Permian period more than 255 ...

Researchers reconstructed the Triassic food web using nothing but scat. Researchers have conducted what could be the largest study ever of dinosaur poop. The findings shed new light on how dinosaur's ...

The Mesozoic wasn’t just the age of dinosaurs. Reptiles of all sorts thrived through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous at the same time our favorite dinosaurs were roaming on land. Long-necked ...