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 ...

Learn why a comprehensive comparison of crocodile skulls, teeth, and jaws hints that generalists, not specialists are best ...

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's swampiest corners for millions of years. But their evolutionary history tells a ...

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

It probably spent most, if not all, of its life in the water eating… anything unfortunate enough to venture too far into the ...

Chicxulub, that pesky asteroid, really did a number on the dinosaurs. It wiped them off the Earth as it cleaned up around 76 ...

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

The fossil find includes at least 19 individuals of the species Buettnererpeton bakeri, which were as large as adult ...

Paleontologists found a group of four-legged Triassic creatures preserved in the same bone bed—but they don’t know what ...