Teaching faculty in the University of Wisconsin Integrative Biology Department Scott Hartman spoke on how thermal modeling is an effective tool for predicting the End-Triassic Extinction period Sept.

For more than two centuries, scientists have argued over where dinosaurs came from and how a scattered set of bones turned ...

While the cause of the mass extinction that occurred between the Permian and Triassic periods is still uncertain, researchers collected data that show that terrestrial biodiversity recovered much ...

Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according to a new study. Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according ...

The question at the heart of a long-standing paleontological mystery solved Wednesday reads like the premise of a Dan Brown novel: How could a 1800s hermit, fossilized footprints collected in the ...

Had a volcano-driven mass extinction not occurred at the end of the Triassic 201 million years ago, we likely would have had something closer to an Age of Crocodiles than the Age of Dinosaurs that ...

In a review, published today in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science, scientists reveal that predators became meaner and prey animals adapted rapidly to find new ways to survive. On land, the ...

Thanks to remarkably well-preserved skeletons, Late Triassic animals known as aetosaurs, reptiles that coexisted with some of the earliest dinosaurs, are now coming into clearer view. The new fossils ...

A new study suggests that a small reptile from 237 million years ago, nicknamed the “tiny bug slayer,” may be the direct ancestor of the massive dinosaurs and pterosaurs that came later. “You probably ...

A Chinese archaeological team has uncovered the fossilized teeth of an animal that lived during the Early Triassic era in what is today Hubei Province. The discovery is the first of its kind in China.

KINGSTON, R.I. -- October 10, 2011 -- While the cause of the mass extinction that occurred between the Permian and Triassic periods is still uncertain, two University of Rhode Island researchers ...

Palaeontologists in the UK and China have shown that the natural world bounced back vigorously following the End-Permian Extinction. In a review, published today in the journal Frontiers in Earth ...