New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...

For over a decade, a large boulder sat unnoticed in the foyer of a Queensland high school. Students walked past it every day, unaware of the incredible history it held. Now, researchers have confirmed ...

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

As a result, there is a lot of knowledge about the Southwest rocks and fossils, and not so much about the Wyoming ones. “And so even knowing how the Wyoming Triassic correlated, how it is ...

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

Across the street from the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site, scientists and volunteers are hard at work. An electrical ...

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...

Ichnology is the study of tracks and traces and, since 2008, the Cape South Coast Ichnology Project has documented more than ...

A palaeontologist’s call-out for rocks bearing dinosaur footprints around an Australian town has borne fruit, including a densely packed set of prints sitting in the foyer of the local high school, ...

An ancient mass extinction event left a long-hidden refuge, whose survivors repopulated the Earth much faster than previously ...