Museum fossils in England reveal 200-million-year-old coelacanths, fish that swam alongside the first dinosaurs ...

The Triassic period represents a pivotal chapter in Earth’s history, marking not only the recovery from the Permo‐Triassic mass extinction but also a remarkable burst in marine reptile diversity.

Paleontologists have found a fossilized pterosaur precursor with gnarly, scimitar-like claws and a beak, indicating that the reptilian group it belongs to was more diverse than previously thought. The ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a warm shallow sea about 240 million years ago in what is now southwestern China, a large dolphin-like marine reptile attacked and swallowed an almost equally big lizard-like ...

A dense Arctic bonebed shows marine life and ocean food webs recovered far faster than scientists once believed after mass ...

The supercontinent Pangaea, which was a combination of today’s continents, broke apart at the end of the Triassic period due to large-scale volcanic activity. This volcanic activity was thought to be ...

Everything has its pecking order, and geology is no exception. The cocks of the rocks are the big, swaggering periods of the past that fill books, television programmes and natural-history museums.

A newly described species of ichthyosaur is likely the largest species of marine reptile ever to be formally described, according to a study published April 17 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by ...

A Triassic herbivore, known for its supposed similarities to a modern-day ostrich, has been revealed to have entirely different approach to feeding from previously thought. A Triassic herbivore, known ...

About 246 million years ago, a pregnant sea monster died before her due date, perishing with at least three little unborn monsters inside her, a new study finds. This creature, an ichthyosaur — a ...

An estimated 20,000 prints from mid-sized dinosaurs stretched across 5km of near-vertical rock. It's one of the richest sites ...