Paleontologists have known something strange happened between the end of the Triassic Period and the beginning of the Jurassic for the better part of a century. In the latest days of the Triassic, ...

A rice farm in southern Brazil was just found to be home to the fossil of one of the missing links between the ground-based ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they may have actually arisen in tougher conditions near the equator ...

A chicken-sized dino, the oldest known in North America, has thrown a wrench in the widely accepted timeline of early dinosaur history.

A study of fossilised faeces and vomit found in Poland last year revealed how early dinosaurs in the Triassic era, 252 to 201 million years ago, competed for food. By examining the fossils for ...

Scientists think they know where the missing pieces to the puzzle of the evolution of dinosaurs could be found.

Scientists in Alberta have discovered a fossilized neck bone of Cryodrakon boreas, hinting at an ancient croc attack.

the evolutionary relationships among these early forms and Earth’s geography during the Triassic Period. This locale spans the modern-day Sahara desert and Amazon rainforest regions, now ...

This was many millions of years before the first modern humans, Homo sapiens, appeared. Scientists divide the Mesozoic Era into three periods: the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. During this era, ...