A rice farm in southern Brazil was just found to be home to the fossil of one of the missing links between the ground-based ...
Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus ...
Even though direct fossil evidence of fuzzy Triassic dinosaurs has yet to be found, paleontologists expect they were fluffy reptiles given that both dinosaurs and pterosaurs of the Jurassic and ...
A remarkable plesiosaur fossil reveals that the extinct reptiles had scales like modern sea turtles, unlike the ichthyosaurs that lived during the same period ...
Dinosaurs evolved from more primitive reptiles in the aftermath of ... playing a minor role in their ecosystems during the Triassic," Heath said. "They lived in the shadows of bigger, more ...
Dinosaurs had sex. Fossil nests and eggs, as well as the ways today’s birds and crocodiles reproduce, leave no doubt on that ...
The Triassic climate was relatively hot and dry, and much of the land was covered with large deserts. Unlike today, there were no polar ice caps. It was in this environment that the reptiles known as ...
Scientists think they know where the missing pieces to the puzzle of the evolution of dinosaurs could be found.
Ancient fossils found near Dubois have scientists rethinking the lifespan of reptiles — and how to include Native communities ...