Long before dinosaurs became dominant, the Triassic world was ruled by archosaurs whose true behavior is still debated by ...

Friday, March 20, Sterling Nesbitt, a paleontologist and professor of geobiology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State ...

Just a few million years after the end-Permian mass extinction event (EPME), aquatic reptiles and other vertebrates had recovered to form thriving and diverse oceanic ecosystems, according to a study ...

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 ...

A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the predator Dinogorgon, whose skull is shown here, hunted floodplains in the heart of today's South Africa. In less than a ...