Long before dinosaurs became dominant, the Triassic world was ruled by archosaurs whose true behavior is still debated by ...

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Some of their dinosaur-like traits are their bone structure, strong leg muscles for bipedal walking, sharp claws, and the ability to defend themselves by kicking. The Triassic-Jurassic Extinction ...

Between two of the sites currently hosting events in the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics lies an immense dinosaur trackway only spotted five months ago. Unusually, the tracks date from the Triassic, the ...

Despite Earth's most devastating mass extinction wiping out over 80% of marine life and half of land species, a group of early reptiles called archosauromorphs not only survived but thrived, venturing ...

The latest clues hint at where pterosaurs — the first vertebrates to fly — came from, how they evolved, what they ate and more.

Researchers are uncovering the evolutionary steps that set the stage for dinosaurs to rule the planet Amy McDermott, PNAS Front Matter Paleontologists have found early examples of theropods, the group ...

A wildlife photographer who was exploring a remote pocket of the Italian Alps has discovered thousands of dinosaur footprints preserved in the vertical face of a mountainside. In September, Elio Della ...

Switzerland, A Paradise For Dinosaur Hunters. Or Is It?. Switzerland occupies a special place in the world of ichnology, the ...

A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the predator Dinogorgon, whose skull is shown here, hunted floodplains in the heart of today's South Africa. In less than a ...