Fossils from this time and region are rare ... playing a minor role in their ecosystems during the Triassic,” Heath said.

A rice farm in southern Brazil was just found to be home to the fossil of one of the missing links between the ground-based ...

Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they may have actually arisen in tougher conditions near the equator ...

Non-bird dinosaurs lived between about 245 and 66 million years ago, in a time known as the ... All continents during the Triassic Period were part of a single land mass called Pangaea. This meant ...

Fossils from this time and region are rare ... in their ecosystems during the Triassic," Heath said. "They lived in the shadows of bigger, more dominant animals. However, dinosaurs had some ...

Paleontologists have known something strange happened between the end of the Triassic Period and the beginning ... relatives lived on during the same time. The shifts in Earth’s biodiversity ...

Dinosaurs had sex. Fossil nests and eggs, as well as the ways today’s birds and crocodiles reproduce, leave no doubt on that ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

The first pterosaurs had a sail-like tensioning system for flying with potentially cumbersome tail vanes, which they could have used for displays, a new study finds.