A newfound site in the Italian Alps holds one of the largest collections of Triassic dinosaur footprints ever seen ...

Between two of the sites currently hosting events in the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics lies an immense dinosaur trackway only ...

Learn how Triassic marine amphibian fossils from the Kimberley region in Australia reveal rapid global dispersal after the ...

A new species of ancient reptile has been named after spending more than 200 million years buried in the ground. Threordatoth chasmatos was one of the last survivors of the procolophonids, a group of ...

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 new Triassic crocodylomorph from Gloucester sheds light on early crocodile evolution and pre-extinction ecosystems.

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 ...

It was relatively small compared to the giants that would follow it later in Earth’s history. With a hip height of approximately 0.3 meters (about a foot) and a length of perhaps a meter (roughly ...

Indian Creek Basin, as it might have appeared in the Triassic. Illustration by Franz Anthony Mass extinctions are a window into past climate disasters. They give a glimpse of the chemical and ...

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 ...