WEST TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - It's a discovery that sounds more like the premise of an Isaac Asimov novel than fact. Swamp monsters did exist, 205 million years ago, according to a group of ...

A dinosaur fossil footprint found about 50 years ago is from a plant-eating dinosaur – not a huge meat-eating dinosaur as previously thought, according to a new study. The footprint, which dates back ...

New research has revealed why it took more than 30 million years for large Triassic dinosaurs to populate the tropics after they first appeared on Earth, ending a mystery that has kept researchers ...

BOONE, N.C. — Andrew Heckert usually heads out west when he wants to go back in time, say about 230 million years ago. But in recent years, the Appalachian State University professor could drive down ...

March 6 (UPI) --New research suggests the Permian-Triassic extinction event was caused by a brief ice age, 250 million years ago. The ancient rock strata known as the Permian-Triassic boundary boasts ...

In the dangerous waters of an ancient oxbow lake created by a flooded and unnamed meandering river, the female phytosaur died and sank to the bottom 205 million years ago. About 40 yards away the ...

A new species of hulking ancient herbivore would have overshadowed its relatives. Fossils found in Poland belong to a new species that roamed during the Late Triassic, a period some 237 million to 201 ...

Just a few million years after the end-Permian mass extinction event (EPME), aquatic reptiles and other vertebrates had recovered to form thriving and diverse oceanic ecosystems, according to a study ...

A new study by a team of scientists from Argentina, Brazil, California and the Natural History Museum of Utah at the University of Utah has determined that the time elapsed between the emergence of ...

Diagnostic ammonites and other fossils indicate that much of the Natchez Pass formation in northwestern Nevada is of early Late Triassic (Karnian) age instead of Middle Triassic age as originally ...

HOUSTON, Feb. 16 - Appraisal wells on Ledjmet Block 405b in the Berkine basin discovered a new pay zone of Middle Triassic age and indicated extension of several pools in Menzel Ledjmet East ...