#FossilFriday: This 250-million-year-old animal could enter hibernation-like states
Lystrosaurus may be the oldest hibernating vertebrate in the fossil record.
Tag: triassic
Rare bone cancer found in 240-million-year-old turtle
We're not all that different from the creatures with whom we share and have shared this planet.
New Antarctic Dinosaurs on Display at Field Museum
It's a great way to spend an afternoon or a day off.
Fossil Friday: Helicoprion
Helicoprion is an extinct genus of shark-like, cartilaginous fish that lived from the early Permian (~290 m.y. ago) all through ...
Dinosaurs were warm-blooded, new study finds
New controversial research concluded that dinosaurs weren't the cold blooded lizards we tend to see them today - instead, they ...
Car-sized Salamander roamed Portugal 230 million years ago
Paleontologists have found the remains of a "super salamander" - a previously unknown car-sized species of early amphibian. The predatory ...
Croc ancestor was the top two-legged predator on Earth, long before T. Rex and other dinosaurs
Long before T-rex claimed the top dog spot among terrestrial predators, a vicious crocodile ancestor that walked on its hind ...
How some dinosaurs got enormously long necks
The longest creatures to ever walk the Earth were the long-necked, long-tailed dinosaurs known as the sauropods. But why did ...
Bus sized Triassic marine monster sheds light on ecosystems
A new species of "sea monster" was unearther in Nevada - a predator so fierce that it often hunted prey ...
