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

Sometime around 210 million years ago, in what is now the badlands of New Mexico, a mudslide froze an ancient ecosystem in ...

Since two academics started a program offering undergraduate students a chance to study distinctive fossil specimens, they’ve ...

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 ...

EXPERTS have uncovered an ancient cousin to the crocodile that had a terrifyingly different approach to hunting. The ...

Learn more about the “folded” fossil of Ptychotherates bucculentus, from one of the first families of carnivorous dinosaurs.

A previously misidentified Triassic cynodont has been confirmed as a new species, revealing a surviving lineage of early ...

A newly studied Triassic reptile, Sonselasuchus cedrus, is upending assumptions about how ancient crocodile relatives moved.

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, ...

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