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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paleontologists associated with different institutions in Argentina, along with a scientist from the U.K., have identified specks ...

Researchers have categorized fossil remains from New Mexico as a new kind of early crocodylomorph, showing the ancestors and ...

When it comes to studying dinosaurs, not all fossils are created equal. Some, unearthed in pristine condition, serve as ...

Whoever the trackmakers are, these footprints establish the origin of bird-like feet at least as early as the Late Triassic Period. The authors add: “ Trisauropodiscus tracks are known from numerous ...

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 ...

Pterosaurs which dominated the skies of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods first evolved to take to the air in warm and humid conditions during the Late Triassic, a new study suggests. In a ...