The fossils were uncovered at a remote bonebed in present-day Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. They date back to the late Triassic period and offer paleontologists a snapshot of an ecosystem ...

Paleontologists associated with different institutions in Argentina, along with a scientist from the U.K., have identified specks of scales from lepidopterans—a family of winged insects including ...

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Paleontologists discovered about 20,000 well-preserved dinosaur tracks from the Triassic period in the Alps. “This represents one of the most important deposits of Triassic trace fossils in the world.

Coelophysis was a slender carnivorous dinosaur that lived during a time when Earth looked nothing like it does today. Fossil discoveries in the southwestern United States have made it one of the ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Are you a fan of dragons? If so, you may have reason to celebrate a recent discovery. The discoveries are in relation to the dinocephalosaurus orientalis, a dinosaur that lived ...

The best jaw for hunting fast fish is long and full of sharp teeth. This makes sense to us, but it also makes sense in nature: New fossil evidence from Virginia Tech geoscientists revealed that ...

The mass extinction that wiped out nearly all life on Earth just before the dinosaurs evolved may have been caused by a global temperature drop rather than a rapidly warming climate. The End Triassic ...

Could you survive the rise of a bunch of weird creatures in the Triassic Period? In the aftermath of the Great Dying, rapid evolutionary radiation resulted in the rise of a bunch of weird creatures in ...