The painted desert of Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park is a fossil wonderland. Scattered through the sunbeaten rock are rainbow-colored trunks of prehistoric conifers, the crumbling bones of ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Are you a fan of dragons? If so, you may have reason to celebrate a recent discovery. The discoveries are in relation to the dinocephalosaurus orientalis, a dinosaur that lived ...

During the Triassic, a newly described species related to modern crocodiles and alligators stalked prey on land, not the ...

Scientists have found evidence of wildfires that occurred 237 million years ago and shaped ancient Triassic ecosystems.

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Archosauromorphs walked - across a 10,000-mile hellscape - so dinosaurs could run. According to a new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, archosauromorphs, early ancestors of dinosaurs ...

An artist’s reconstruction of the fossilized landscape, plants and animals found preserved in a remote bonebed in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. Illustration by Brian Engh. Note to editors ...

A strange crocodile relative that may have shifted from four legs to two is shedding light on convergent evolution and the hidden diversity of Triassic ecosystems. A “peculiar” reptile from the age of ...

Imagine southern Brazil’s vast grasslands, where the earth reveals its ancient secrets. It’s not just dirt; it’s a time capsule bursting open fast. Meet Gnathovorax cabreirai, a Triassic-era ruler of ...

Could you survive the rise of a bunch of weird creatures in the Triassic Period? In the aftermath of the Great Dying, rapid evolutionary radiation resulted in the rise of a bunch of weird creatures in ...

A skull of the Triassic amphibian Buettnererpeton bakeri gets uncovered for the first time in 230 million years. Researchers found it in a cache of skeletons that were well-preserved and appear to be ...

Long before mammals dominated the land and even before the most famous dinosaurs appeared, Earth was home to a wide variety of powerful predators. While dinosaurs often get most of the attention when ...