The end-Triassic extinction, which happened 201 million years ago, was Earth’s third most severe extinction event since the dawn of animal life. Like today, CO 2 rise and global warming were present, ...

A previously misidentified Triassic cynodont has been confirmed as a new species, revealing a surviving lineage of early ...

A razor-snouted marine reptile with dinner-skewer teeth, Xiphodracon goldencapensis, has been added to the ichthyosaur family ...

Christian Sidor, Burke Museum curator of vertebrate paleontology and a biology professor at the University of Washington, recounts the discovery of Triassic fossils. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) More ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Imagine a crocodile that would rather sprint than swim. It dashes over dry ground on long, slender legs like a reptilian ...

Jessica H. Whiteside has received funding from National Science Foundation and Natural Environmental Research Council. Just over 200m years ago, the end-Triassic mass extinction killed off more than ...

"Triassic specimen found to be early relative of pterosaurs a century after its discovery." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 10 / 221005111943.htm (accessed March 6, 2026).

A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the predator Dinogorgon, whose skull is shown here, hunted floodplains in the heart of today's South Africa. In less than a ...