It was big and burly, but don’t call this Triassic-era beast a dinosaur. More closely related to mammals, this oversized herbivore is rocking the paleontological world—and changing what we know of ...

High above the future slopes of the Milan-Cortina Winter Games, a vertical Alpine rock face has turned into an open-air archive of deep time, exposing thousands of dinosaur footprints that had been ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown crocodile-like reptile species that lived around 237 million years ago during the Triassic Period. It has been described as an "extremely rare" ...

During the Triassic period, Earth looked very different. The planet's landmass formed the supercontinent Pangea, surrounded by a single vast ocean, and home to strange creatures competing for ...

Reconstruction of a Late Triassic landscape (approximately 215 million years ago). A lagerpetid, a close relative of pterosaurs, is perched on a rock, observing pterosaurs flying overhead.

Introducing, Ingentia prima, a large, four-legged, long-necked dinosaur that lived a whopping 47 million years before giants like Diplodocus and Brontosaurus shook the Earth. Found in Argentina, its ...

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OUR older rocks have naturally diversified the scenery during many a past period. Bent and hardened by various processes, and ridged up into hilly ground, some of them have so long withstood the ...

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