A previously misidentified Triassic cynodont has been confirmed as a new species, revealing a surviving lineage of early ...

A 230-million-year-old fossilized beetle has been discovered in China that could rewrite the history of its evolution.

An international team of scientists, including a senior researcher at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, has uncovered new evidence of ancient wildfires that reshapes our understanding of ...

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

Friday, March 20, Sterling Nesbitt, a paleontologist and professor of geobiology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State ...

The Early Triassic represents a critical interval for ecosystem recovery following the end-Permian mass extinction. This interval was marked by extreme and highly volatile global conditions, including ...

The biggest mass extinction of all time happened 251 million years ago, at the Permian-Triassic boundary. Virtually all of life was wiped out, but the pattern of how life was killed off on land has ...