The forerunners of dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Triassic period were able to migrate across areas of the ancient world deemed completely inhospitable to life, new research suggests.

First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...

Desmatosuchus was a large armored reptile that lived about 230 million years ago during the Late Triassic period. Though not a true crocodile, it belonged to a related group called aetosaurs which ...

Turtles have roamed the Earth since the Triassic Period over 200 million years ago. A new study about their evolution, published in iScience, shows how the scales on turtles’ heads can teach us more ...

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

Paleontologist Andre LuJan had an assist from nature with his latest exciting fossil find. Heavy rains helped expose a nearly complete skull of an enormous ancient salamander-like creature in a quarry ...

The summer blockbuster Jurassic World Rebirth is hitting theaters, so Live Science asked paleontologist Steve Brusatte what ...

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.

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

First ancient flying reptiles were winners of increasing Triassic humid environments Changing climate conditions set the stage for pterosaurs to take to the skies ~220 million years ago ...

Nickelodeon has acquired the animated ‘Mr. Crocodile’ series, based on the French kids book franchise by Joann Sfar.