Teaching faculty in the University of Wisconsin Integrative Biology Department Scott Hartman spoke on how thermal modeling is an effective tool for predicting the End-Triassic Extinction period Sept.

In a review, published today in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science, scientists reveal that predators became meaner and prey animals adapted rapidly to find new ways to survive. On land, the ...

Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according to a new study. Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according ...

Had a volcano-driven mass extinction not occurred at the end of the Triassic 201 million years ago, we likely would have had something closer to an Age of Crocodiles than the Age of Dinosaurs that ...

Though the dinosaurs were all killed by a meteor, not all were created equal in life. This species in particular was adept at ...

Three-toed fossil footprints that date back more than 210 million years were pressed into soft mud by bipedal reptiles with feet like a bird’s, a new analysis of the tracks has revealed. The ...

Petrified Forest National Park spans around 346 square miles of semi-desert shrub steppe and highly eroded and colorful badlands in northeastern Arizona. The park is a blend of short grass prairie and ...

The Quebrada de Santo Domingo in Argentina is a harsh environment. Situated high in the Andes, the area is nearly inhospitable with winds whipping through the mountains and temperatures plummeting.

A nearly complete fossil of Huayracursor jaguensis, one of the world's oldest dinosaurs, was discovered in Argentina. This ...

Meet Huayracursor jaguensis, one of the world’s oldest dinosaurs whose almost complete skeleton was found in an unexplored region of Argentina. Stephanie Edwards is the marketing coordinator at ...

A fossil site of "unique importance" has shed light on a lost prehistoric ecosystem where early dinosaurs roamed more than 200 million years ago. For a study published in the Proceedings of the ...

Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according to a study published November 29, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Miengah Abrahams and Emese M.