In the Year of the Dragon, scientists have made an exciting discovery: a complete fossil of an aquatic reptile resembling a ...

Brazilian researchers discovered a 237-million-year-old reptile fossil that might be a precursor to the dinosaur, though only ...

Today's Google Doodle celebrates the Staurikosaurus, a small dinosaur from the Late Triassic period, about 230 million years ...

Scientists in Brazil announced the discovery of one of the world's oldest fossils believed to belong to an ancient reptile ...

The associated changes in the climate and vegetation affected how dinosaurs evolved. All continents during the Triassic Period were part of a single land mass called Pangaea. This meant that ...

There have been five mass extinction events in the history of the world: the Ordovician-Silurian Extinction, 440 million ...

It wasn’t until the late Triassic period (approximately 225 million years ago) that mammals came into existence. The earliest humans emerged about 300,000 years ago. While many of Earth’s ...

Pterosaurs, Greek for “wing lizards,” arrived on the scene in the Triassic Period, perhaps as early as around 237 million years ago. These original vertebrate fliers preceded birds by at least ...

"But it may be the best place to see the terrestrial realm's transition from the Permian to the Triassic period." We ascended through sheep-ranching country toward the Lootsberg Pass. The rocks ...

The Jurassic Period is named after the Jura Mountains, a mountain range that stretches along the France-Switzerland border. It’s where naturalist Alexander von Humboldt first noticed that Jurassic ...

Palaeontologists think the footprints, which are up to 75cm (30in) apart, were made by a huge herbivore from the late Triassic period, and now there are efforts to get them verified. Tegan and mum ...