A list of animated cartoon series that kids who are obsessed with animals can watch to learn about ecosystems, animals and ...

Long before dinosaurs became dominant, Earth was ruled by an unsettling cast of reptiles that reshaped life after the ...

Advanced biomechanical modeling shows that early mammal ancestors likely used an eardrum to hear airborne sounds 250 million ...

Museum fossils in England reveal 200-million-year-old coelacanths, fish that swam alongside the first dinosaurs ...

High in the Italian Alps, not far from where skiers and snowboarders will soon chase medals, scientists have confirmed one of Europe’s richest collections of dinosaur tracks. Thousands of fossilized ...

Cryptovaranoides, an end-Triassic animal (just over 200 Ma old), was originally described as a possibly anguimorph squamate, i.e., more closely related to snakes and some extant lizards than to other ...

An artist drawing of what the 220-million-year-old tanystropheid reptile recently discovered in Petrified Forest National Park might have looked like. Photos courtesy National Park Service Armed with ...

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 million years ago. This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and ...

In August, a team of researchers announced the discovery of a peculiar reptile with scimitar-like claws. The 230-million-year-old fossil of a lagerpetid, a group that likely gave way to flying ...

Paleontologists released a new report last week showing that the earliest dinosaur ever discovered in North America is from Wyoming. It's a small, chicken-sized dino found in the Wind River Mountains.

Everything has its pecking order, and geology is no exception. The cocks of the rocks are the big, swaggering periods of the past that fill books, television programmes and natural-history museums.

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, ...