A new species of ancient reptile has been named after spending more than 200 million years buried in the ground. Threordatoth chasmatos was one of the last survivors of the procolophonids, a group of ...

Shakajlura riojanensis, a newly discovered Triassic apex predator, ruled the land millions of years before the rise of giant dinosaurs.

The Late Triassic was full of animals that look almost familiar, right up until you place them on the evolutionary tree. One of the newest examples is Labrujasuchus expectatus, a lightly built, ...

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Scientists identified a new species of ancient amphibian-like creature from an Arctic fossil. This previously unknown ...

In the Triassic, the modern animals we know were just beginning to diversify into a menagerie of forms and body plans that rhyme with the lifestyles of extinct and living animals better known to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new Triassic fossil reveals a two-legged, beaked reptile that evolved along the crocodile lineage. (CREDIT: Jorge Gonzalez, ...

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Paleontologists have found a fossilized pterosaur precursor with gnarly, scimitar-like claws and a beak, indicating that the reptilian group it belongs to was more diverse than previously thought. The ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reconstruction of Labrujasuchus expectatus, a new species of Shuvosauridae from Late Triassic rocks of Ghost Ranch, New Mexico.

Reconstruction of Labrujasuchus expectatus, a new species of Shuvosauridae from Late Triassic rocks of Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. Credit: Jorge Gonzalez, copyright NHMLAC Dinosaur Institute In the ...