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

Discover how crocodiles survived two mass extinctions thanks to their flexible diets and habitats, according to research.

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

The park, located in northeastern Arizona, is famous for its late-Triassic-era fossils of trees, plants, reptiles and dinosaurs. John Burcham He and his colleagues found 16 of the animal’s ...

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