A newly discovered Triassic reptile from the UK looked more like a racing greyhound than a crocodile, built for speed on land ...

“One of the great mysteries has been the survival and flourishing of a major group of amphibians called the temnospondyls,” Aamir Mehmood, a study co-author and evolutionary biologist at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a giant pair of swimming Ichthyotitan severnensis, a marine reptile that paleontologists believe may have been ...

Ancient frog relatives survived the aftermath of the largest mass extinction of species by feeding on freshwater prey that evaded terrestrial predators, University of Bristol academics have found. In ...

The Triassic–Jurassic transition represents one of Earth’s most profound episodes of biological upheaval, characterised by extensive volcanic activity, rapid climatic shifts and cascading ...

A newly described fossil species from China is offering a rare glimpse into life just after the largest extinction in Earth’s ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth. Huge volcanoes erupted, releasing 100,000 billion metric tons of carbon ...