The rise of dinosaurs is one of evolution's most intriguing success stories. Emerging in the mid-Triassic period, their journey to dominance spanned millions of years, marked by environmental ...

And as the Triassic gave way to the Jurassic around 200 million years ago, North America began to separate from Africa and Europe, forming the Atlantic Ocean – and isolating the dinosaurs.

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 ...

A fossil discovered in a rock on display at the Nariwa Museum of Art in Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture, has been ...

This ancient reptile’s jawbone was unearthed in Arizona in 2011 and was confirmed to be a new species with the aid of modern ...

The research addresses a significant gap in current knowledge: the first 30 million years of dinosaur evolution during the Late Triassic period.

Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and ...

About 230 million years later, scientists have discovered Africa’s oldest dinosaur to date on the continent in Zimbabwe—and the nearly complete skeleton is now helping scientists better ...

From roughly 230-200 million years ago, during the Late Triassic and into the early Jurassic periods, dinosaurs emerged from just one of many reptilian species to become the dominant species on Earth.

Stock image of an artist's 3D rendering of three sauropod dinosaurs. A fossil site of “unique importance” has shed light on a lost prehistoric ecosystem, where early dinosaurs roamed more than ...