As the great 20th century paleontologist William Diller Matthew once wrote, "The story of life on Earth is a splendid drama, as interesting as we watch its action and study the interplay of causes and ...

Scientists say that 1.6-foot-long impressions discovered on a beach in Wales may actually be footprints of dinosaurs. The "rare" tracks, they said, are 200 million years old, indicating that dinosaurs ...

New research has revealed that soil erosion and wildfires contributed to a mass extinction event 201 million years ago that ended the Triassic era and paved the way for the rise of dinosaurs in the ...

A newly published review of 252-million-year-old fossils from southwest Germany is offering a deeper understanding of life’s rebound following the Permian-Triassic extinction, the most devastating ...

A rock core from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, has given scientists a powerful new tool to understand how catastrophic events shaped Earth's ecosystems before the rise of the dinosaurs. The ...

If we want to look for signs of life on other worlds, we might want to look to our planet’s past, specifically when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. A recent study suggests that when searching the chasm of ...

Could you survive the rise of a bunch of weird creatures in the Triassic Period? In the aftermath of the Great Dying, rapid evolutionary radiation resulted in the rise of a bunch of weird creatures in ...

The painted desert of Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park is a fossil wonderland. Scattered through the sunbeaten rock are rainbow-colored trunks of prehistoric conifers, the crumbling bones of ...

Poposaurus walked like a dinosaur. That’s weird, because the Triassic critter wasn’t a dinosaur at all, but a peculiar archosaur more closely related to crocodiles. Even though paleontologists ...

Scientists say rocks on the English coast contain clues of the processes that drove the end-Triassic event that killed as much as a quarter of all life on Earth. By Lucas Joel Some 200 million years ...

In Universal’s Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom, a massive volcanic eruption threatens to cover Isla Nublar in fire and send the dinosaurs into oblivion for the second time. It would have been a poetic ...