The first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as ...

Ancient fossils of the world's very first dinosaurs may be buried in places almost impossible to investigate, according to new research from University College London and the UK's Natural History ...

Beneath the surface of the Earth lie several tectonic plates - large ... At the end of the Triassic and the beginning of the Jurassic periods, Pangea began to break up, eventually forming the ...

The first pterosaurs had a sail-like tensioning system for flying with potentially cumbersome tail vanes, which they could have used for displays, a new study finds.

Scientists divide the Mesozoic Era into three periods: the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous ... flowering plants were a much more common part of Earth's plant life. Various insect groups also ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Prevalence (in black) of isoëtalean taxa in micro- and megafossil records (from Lopingian and Triassic Stages until the Rhaetian ... The temporal and spatial scales at which we observe the results of ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

Fortunately, there’s an interactive map that can help with that. As Boing Boing explains, TimeMap.org combines the what, who, and where of history into one convenient world map. Use the timeline ...