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

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

A rock core from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, has given scientists a powerful new tool to understand how catastrophic events shaped Earth's ecosystems before the rise of the dinosaurs. The ...

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.

Mass extinctions are a relatively common theme in the history and evolution of life on Earth, and the most famous one is the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. A plethora of research ...

The history of dinosaurs spans millions of years. Learn about the different periods of the dinosaur timeline, from the Triassic to the Cretaceous, and explore the fascinating world of these ...

Massive eruptions transformed the climate in the Triassic era, creating the conditions in which dinosaurs diversified into many more species. By Sam Jones The relationship between dinosaurs and ...