The dinosaurs ruled Earth for around 165 million years, evolving from tiny Triassic reptiles into some of the most gigantic ...

In low-latitude North China, riparian ecosystems began to recover 2–3 million years after the end-Permian mass extinction.

A crew of coal miners in India were digging in the ground until they unearthed a 50-foot monster that lived during one of the ...

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

A "super El Niño" is an unusually intense form of El Niño, the climate pattern that begins in the tropical Pacific and can ...

The asteroid that smacked into our planet about 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary may have been bad news for dinosaurs, but it was good news for fungi. According to new ...

Dennis Imhoff from the Beaver Creek Wildlife Center brought some native amphibious friends to the Salem Public Library ...

Now there’s a new weirdo to add to the Triassic menagerie—a toothless, beaked, bipedal crocodile ancestor. Paleontologists ...

Biologists in the U.S. have found that air loops through the lungs of alligators in one direction, just as it does in the lungs of birds. Researcher C.G. Farmer of the University of Utah and her ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, prehistoric seas and rivers were full of strange fish with armor, fins, lungs, slime, and ...

Learn how a 260-million-year-old Permian reptile, once thought to explain turtle evolution, turned out to belong to a different lineage, reshaping the story of turtle origins in the Triassic Period.

A fossil enthusiast near Clarens in the Free State shared a video of what could be a record-breaking Lystrosaurus skull ...