Two hundred and fifty one million years ago, the worst mass extinction event Planet Earth has ever seen ruined the life of ...

Coelophysis is an early theropod dinosaur, a pioneering member of a group that will one day give rise to some of the biggest carnivores ever to live. He’s a lot more humble in his size, however, ...

With an incredible history and mysterious extinction, these fascinating creatures continue to puzzle scientists to this day.

Ruby Reynolds and her father were on the beach when they discovered Ichthyotitan severnensis - the largest-ever marine ...

France was once filled with dinosaurs. Today it has one of the most extensive fossil records in Europe, ranging from the late Triassic period to the late Cretaceous, roughly 200 million to 75 ...

In the Triassic era, North America was part of Pangea, a supercontinent whose massive scale sparked extreme monsoons that ...

The NASA satellite image shows rust-red rock formations in Wyoming—evidence of 220-million-year-old 'megamonsoons'.

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 ...

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

It spans from 145 million to 201 million years ago. This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and followed by the ...