Over 50 Triassic coelacanth fossils of mawsoniid, found mislabeled in British museums, show these ancient fish thrived in ...

High in the Italian Alps, not far from where skiers and snowboarders will soon chase medals, scientists have confirmed one of ...

A wildlife photographer discovered 200 million-year-old dinosaur tracks high up in the Italian Alps in September.

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 ...

In the north of Italy, high up on a rocky cliff face, a casual observation has revealed one of the greatest discoveries of ...

Paleontologists found hundreds of thousands of dinosaur footprints from 210 million years ago, the Triassic era, near the site of February's Winter Olympics.

The Triassic Period was a time of great change. Bookended by extinctions, this era saw huge shifts in the diversity and dominance of life on Earth, ushering in the appearance of many well-known groups ...

The end-Triassic extinction is one of the Phanerozoic’s largest mass extinctions. This extinction is typically attributed to climate change associated with degassing of basalt flows from the central ...

Widespread volcanic eruptions around 202 million years ago had a profound effect on Earth’s climate, triggering a mass extinction event that killed off three-fourths of the planet’s species, including ...

As the great 20th century paleontologist William Diller Matthew once wrote, "The story of life on Earth is a splendid drama, as interesting as we watch its action and study the interplay of causes and ...