The discovery of nearly 20 alligator-size amphibians that died together during the Triassic in what is now Wyoming is ...

New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...

Roughly 230 million years ago, a group of alligator-sized amphibians convened on a floodplain in what is now west-central Wyoming. For some mysterious reason, the creatures all died around the same ...

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

Scientists racing the clock to finish excavating top southern Utah dinosaur fossil site before construction on a power ...

While preparing to build a power substation next to a Utah residential subdivision, a prehistoric field of dinosaur and other ...

A comprehensive overview of a geological period, like the Triassic, can also help us to assess the long-term consequences of climate change and biodiversity loss today," says Mujal. The fossil ...

Fossils on the site, including the area slated for the substation, date back roughly 200 million years to the beginning of ...

That distinction belongs to the Permian-Triassic extinction or the Great ... These pleasantly plump salamanders dominated the Cretaceous period. ] “Fossils are known from South Africa and ...

A rare fossil unearthed in Mongolia's Gobi Desert has led to the identification of a new dinosaur species Duonychus ...

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

A 10-year-old girl out on a shoreline stroll on a Wales beach literally stumbled upon five prehistoric dinosaur footprints.