During the Permian-Triassic extinction, Inostrancevia, a saber-toothed predator, emerged as a dominant force. Fossils ...

A 240-million-year-old Dinocephalosaurus orientalis fossil, unearthed in Southern China, has captivated scientists with its ...

Two hundred and fifty one million years ago, the worst mass extinction event Planet Earth has ever seen ruined the life of ...

Scientists have unearthed a 240-million-year-old fossil of a Dinocephalosaurus, a long-necked marine reptile that closely ...

The Permian-Triassic extinction eliminated almost 90 percent of all species. The devastating loss came after violent volcanic ...

The marine predator fossils represent one of the most complete plesiosaur specimens in the Perot Museum of Nature and Science ...

It probably spent most, if not all, of its life in the water eating… anything unfortunate enough to venture too far into the ...

The NASA satellite image shows rust-red rock formations in Wyoming—evidence of 220-million-year-old 'megamonsoons'.

Marmoretta is a stem lepidosaur, an early relative of the group containing all lizards and snakes as well as an unusual ...

The result was an unusually long and flexible body suited for life in water ... more example of the weird and wonderful world of the Triassic that continues to baffle palaeontologists.

Could aquatic mammals, such as whales, orcas, and bottlenose dolphins, ever evolve to live on land again? It seems the ...