A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...

Some of these took place during the Mesozoic Era. The Mesozoic Era began with the Earth’s worst-ever extinction event. It is ...

Discover how crocodiles survived two mass extinctions thanks to their flexible diets and habitats, according to research.

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

Utah researchers think they now know how existing crocodiles and alligators were able to survive the last two extinctions.

The NASA satellite image shows rust-red rock formations in Wyoming—evidence of 220-million-year-old 'megamonsoons'.

A growing amount of evidence is pointing to the idea that around 232 million years ago, it started to rain, and for the most ...

Most people think a meteor killed the dinosaurs - but that wasn’t Earth’s biggest extinction. The Permian-Triassic extinction ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

and how can they help predict the future of life on Earth? Petrified Forest National Park is one of the most complete records of the end Triassic in the world. It is a really interesting area to ...

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's ...