Around 1000 markings on a slab of rock that was once a seafloor during the Cretaceous period may have been made by sea turtle ...

The Triassic spark, the Jurassic explosion, and the Cretaceous climax, each chapter of dinosaur history reveals how climate, geology, and competition sculpted life. This video compresses millions of ...

Sea turtles have been around since the time of the dinosaurs, having survived multiple extinction events over 100 million years. But the cascading effects of human activity have caused rapid ...

A turtle who somehow shucked off his transmitter and absconded from a western Pennsylvania sanctuary was found 20 miles away more than three years later. The Tamarack Wildlife Center said this summer, ...

A reptile from the Middle Triassic had a spectacular crest made from feather-like structures, around 100 million years before the first feathered dinosaurs. Its remains comprise two fossils with the ...

Body coverings such as hair and feathers have played a central role in evolution. They enabled warm-bloodedness by insulating the body, and were used for courtship, display, deterrence of enemies and, ...

This man saw a turtle slowly heading toward the road and was afraid it might get hit by a car. He tried to pick it up to move it to safety, but the turtle suddenly snapped at him, and he jumped back ...

A vehicle that could dive underwater … and stay there? During the Revolutionary War, an American colonist built an experimental submersible vehicle that George Washington called “an effort of genius.” ...

Since 1990, several localities within the Keuper (upper Middle to Upper Triassic) strata in southern Poland have yielded remains of numerous terrestrial vertebrate species. Here we report a new Upper ...

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.

In Paraíso do Sul in southern Brazil, scientists discovered a fossil of a dog-sized reptile dating back to 237 million years ago. The creature, a newly described species named Gondwanax paraisensis, ...

The mass extinction that wiped out nearly all life on Earth just before the dinosaurs evolved may have been caused by a global temperature drop rather than a rapidly warming climate. The End Triassic ...