A father and his 11-year-old daughter were in for a shock when they discovered a two-metre-long jawbone on a beach in Devon, south-west England, in 2020. They immediately alerted t ...

Decades later, those fossilized remains have revealed a new chapter in the story of early dinosaurs. Introducing Maleriraptor ...

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

The Triassic Period, when the dinosaurs first rose to dominance, was a time filled with strange and bizarre creatures. Let's ...

This was during the Triassic period. This branch of the tree of life gave rise to various reptiles, including pterosaurs, and ...

A NEW dog-sized dinosaur species that roamed the Earth 220 million years ago has been discovered. The Maleriraptor kuttyi is thought to be one of the earliest killer dinosaurs in history. The ...

The Triassic Period was a time of great change. Bookended by extinctions, this era saw huge shifts in the diversity and dominance of life on Earth, ushering in the appearance of many well-known groups ...

The discovery of Maleriraptor kuttyi fossils in India has redefined the understanding of dinosaur evolution. This 220-million ...

Maleriraptor kuttyi lived during the Norian age of the Triassic period. It belonged to the Herrerasauria group — an early ...

The geological record offers strong evidence of numerous climate upheavals such as this throughout prehistory, often with ...

Fossils of a carnivorous dinosaur discovered in Telangana’s Jayashankar Bhupalpally district in 1980 are approximately ...

One particular period of climate upheaval occurred during the late Triassic Period, around 234 million years ago, in an event known as the Carnian Pluvial Episode. The records of geological strata ...