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

The life of a 166-million-year-old reptile has been turned upside down. While Marmoretta oxoniensis was believed to have swum ...

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

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

The Museum of Texas Tech houses fossils from the Triassic, Ice Age. Here's a behind the scenes look into the paleontology ...

The former quarry located in Cromhall, South Gloucestershire, is renowned as a rich source of Triassic wildlife. Gliding reptiles, dinosaur relatives and even one of the earliest known lizards ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Things were no better on land where numerous groups went extinct. All of the Triassic archosaurs (the ruling reptiles) who had evolved since the last great extinction were made extinct apart from ...

For scientists and conservationists, knowing how species survive planetary crises can lead to more effective protection of vulnerable species.