A dense Arctic bonebed shows marine life and ocean food webs recovered far faster than scientists once believed after mass ...

Over 50 Triassic coelacanth fossils of mawsoniid, found mislabeled in British museums, show these ancient fish thrived in ...

The end-Triassic extinction, which happened 201 million years ago, was Earth’s third most severe extinction event since the dawn of animal life. Like today, CO 2 rise and global warming were present, ...

A wildlife photographer discovered 200 million-year-old dinosaur tracks high up in the Italian Alps in September.

In the north of Italy, high up on a rocky cliff face, a casual observation has revealed one of the greatest discoveries of ...

A sheep-sized reptile that roamed the earth between 250 and 225 million years ago eating tough vegetation eventually starved to death due to its diet weakening its teeth, new research has suggested.

Jessica H. Whiteside has received funding from National Science Foundation and Natural Environmental Research Council. Just over 200m years ago, the end-Triassic mass extinction killed off more than ...

Everything has its pecking order, and geology is no exception. The cocks of the rocks are the big, swaggering periods of the past that fill books, television programmes and natural-history museums.

The end-Triassic extinction is one of the Phanerozoic’s largest mass extinctions. This extinction is typically attributed to climate change associated with degassing of basalt flows from the central ...

As the great 20th century paleontologist William Diller Matthew once wrote, "The story of life on Earth is a splendid drama, as interesting as we watch its action and study the interplay of causes and ...