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 ...
It may look like a bizarre cross between a pig, a turtle and a sabre-toothed cat - but this was one of the most formidable ...
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, ...
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, ...
See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have identified a new species of extinct crocodile kin that ...
The surprising discovery of a new species of extinct crocodile relative from the Triassic Favret Formation of Nevada, USA, rewrites the story of life along the coasts during the first act of the Age ...
Meet Fasolasuchus, a colossal Triassic predator that ruled before dinosaurs. Paleontologists uncover details about its fascinating lineage and unique evolutionary traits. One of those was Fasolasuchus ...
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 ...
A new U.S. study has examined how terrestrial vertebrates were affected at the end of the Permian Period about 252 million years ago when up to 90 percent of ocean creatures went extinct. A small ...
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.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The tusks of a stoutly built plant-eating mammal relative that inhabited Antarctica 250 million years ago are providing the oldest-known evidence that animals resorted to ...
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.