The Triassic is a tale of two histories. One is its natural history, begun after the Great Permian Dying, 252m years ago, when, as happens from time to time, plate tectonics brought Earth’s continents ...
A newfound "chicken-size" dinosaur, recently unearthed in Wyoming, changes what paleontologists thought they knew about how dinosaurs spread across the globe.
2024 was a busy year for dinosaur discoveries. New research from around the world revealed dozens of ... In December 2024, researchers in the U.K. announced the discovery of a prehistoric reptile from ...
The origin of mammals is shrouded in mystery, but every fossil clue helps rewrite the story. A new discovery on a Mediterranean island is challenging what we know about when—and where—mammal ancestors ...