A Somerset coastal town is asking beachgoers to only take loose fossils, after reports of people using power tools and ...

Mirasaura grauvogeli had a featherlike crest and a tail like a monkey. “It's been a long time since I've been so blown away ...

During the Triassic period nearly 250 million years ago, a small reptile scurried after insects in the canopy of a lush ...

The newly described Mirasaura grauvogeli from the Middle Triassic had a striking feather-like crest, hinting that complex skin appendages arose far earlier than previously believed. Its bird-like ...

Preserved in tan stone, the fossil of Mirasaura included much of the ancient reptile’s skeleton and a feather-like fan that ...

An international team of researchers has published a groundbreaking study in Nature, revealing that early reptiles from the ...

In a groundbreaking study, new fossil evidence has shed light on the mysterious 5-million-year heatwave that followed Earth’s ...

A 247-million-year-old fossil reptile boasted an enormous crest on its back made from feather-like appendages, long before ...

Learn about the time period that took place 251 to 199 million years ago. 3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time in Earth's history. Something—a ...

“Over the past two decades, about 30 new species have been described from Triassic beds of Brazil, including forerunners to mammals and representatives of distinct lineages of archosaurs ...

Paleontologists with the Petrified Forest National Park have named and described a new reptile within the park that lived in ...

The Permian-Triassic (P-T or PT) extinction event, sometimes informally called the Great Dying, was an extinction event that occurred approximately 251.0 million years ago (mya), forming the ...