Everyone knows about the mass extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs. About 66 million years ago, a seven-mile-wide asteroid slammed into our planet and began a mass extinction that wiped out all ...

During the Late Triassic, the supercontinent of Pangea split into two ... avoiding the jaws of much larger reptiles like 17-foot-long Heptasuchus, crocodile-like phytosaurs, and four-foot-long ...

New York’s oldest known inhabitant, says Beebe, (and probably its first Jersey commuter)was a crocodile-like creature called the phytosaur, whose bones were found just across the Hudson River ...

Earth’s continents are constantly shifting. About 252 to 199 million years ago, all the continents were actually one huge “supercontinent” surrounded by one enormous ocean. Slowly, this ...