The new study deciphered the single-most greatest mass extinction on Earth driven by a natural calamity that still exists.

To store gas the way the company, UK Oil and Gas (UKOG), is proposing, you first need to find a thick band of underground ...

Paleontologists suspect that the earliest dinosaurs may have lived in regions that are simply too remote to have been ...

Bats in the noctilionoid group, like Darwin’s finches, have evolved an impressive variety of jaw and tooth adaptations to suit their diverse diets. From fruit to fish, these bats have rapidly changed ...

A transcontinental drainage system transported sediments from the North China Craton into the eastern Paleo-Tethys Ocean in the Middle Triassic, as shown by a multi-proxy provenance and ...

The only time 30 years isn’t a long time is when the topic is historic eras, like Mesozoic or Triassic. But Jones doesn’t seem to believe his team is in the middle of the NFL’s Sahara Desert.

The story of how dinosaurs came to dominate Earth has fascinated scientists and the public for generations. But what if we’ve been looking in the wrong places for their earliest ancestors? A ...

Protecting and conserving our natural heritage, predicting weather and environmental conditions, preventing and managing pollution, promoting clean growth and a sustainable environment for present and ...

The mystery behind the origins of the dinosaurs may have been given a new twist, with a modeling study suggesting they may have evolved in what is today equatorial Africa and South America. This would ...

Researchers are now proposing a surprising location for the birthplace of dinosaurs, based on the locations of the currently oldest-known dinosaur fossils, the evolutionary relationships among these ...

Some dinosaurs were getting bigger by the end of the Triassic. Climate changes during the period underwrote a vegetation boom that provided some previously omnivorous dinosaur lineages with enough ...