An 11-year-old girl and her father discovered the remains of the largest marine reptile ever known, Ichthyotitan severnensis, ...

Have you ever wondered what the world looked like millions of years ago? Imagine walking in a place where every rock could ...

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In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

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

Paleontologists are uncovering a bonebed containing more than 19 giant amphibian skeletons from the Popo Agie Formation near ...

This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and followed by the Cretaceous Period. It was a time of significant changes ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

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