This documentary explores the rise of a slender but deadly predator that helped shape the earliest age of dinosaurs. Scientists uncover fossils revealing how it adapted to an unstable world recovering ...

Could you survive the rise of a bunch of weird creatures in the Triassic Period? In the aftermath of the Great Dying, rapid evolutionary radiation resulted in the rise of a bunch of weird creatures in ...

Paleontologists have found a fossilized pterosaur precursor with gnarly, scimitar-like claws and a beak, indicating that the reptilian group it belongs to was more diverse than previously thought. The ...

It's a fitting discovery in the Year of the Dragon: A team of scientists has uncovered a complete fossil of an aquatic reptile that resembles a "Chinese dragon" because of its snake-like appearance ...

Ancient reptilian carnivores that resembled modern crocodiles were fearsome hunters, but their scaly armor and sharp teeth couldn’t protect them from parasites, scientists have discovered.

About 200 million years ago, the earliest dinosaurs had a lot of reptilian company. There were big crocodile-like creatures, ponderous plant-eaters, even four-legged runners with fierce, ...

Scientists have identified a new species of extinct crocodile kin that reveals they unexpectedly ruled the coasts of the Triassic period. The groundbreaking discovery of the Benggwigwishingasuchus ...

The mass extinction that wiped out nearly all life on Earth just before the dinosaurs evolved may have been caused by a global temperature drop rather than a rapidly warming climate. The End Triassic ...

Archosauromorphs walked - across a 10,000-mile hellscape - so dinosaurs could run. According to a new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, archosauromorphs, early ancestors of dinosaurs ...

In Paraíso do Sul in southern Brazil, scientists discovered a fossil of a dog-sized reptile dating back to 237 million years ago. The creature, a newly described species named Gondwanax paraisensis, ...