The Triassic Period, when the dinosaurs first rose to dominance, was a time filled with strange and bizarre creatures. Let's ...

Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans and their earliest ancestors have been on the planet, ...

Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans and their earliest ancestors have been on the planet, it wouldn’t be surprising if ancient alien maps labeled Earth ...

A 166-million-year-old Middle Jurassic herbivorous dinosaur, the size of a large dog and bipedal, has been discovered on the ...

The Triassic Period was a time of great change. Bookended by extinctions, this era saw huge shifts in the diversity and dominance of life on Earth, ushering in the appearance of many well-known groups ...

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 ...

Working alongside paleobiologists Michelle Stocker and Sterling Nesbitt with junior microbiology major Maranda Stricklin, Stack drew this conclusion by analyzing a fossilized Triassic-era fish ...

One particular period of climate upheaval occurred during the late Triassic Period, around 234 million years ago, in an event known as the Carnian Pluvial Episode. The records of geological strata ...

"Pterosaurs are found in the geological record around 219 million years ago, at the end of the Triassic period," he noted. This places their emergence between 10 and 15 million years after the ...