“We hitherto did not know of any amphibians that live in the sea full-time,” corresponding author Ryosuke Motani told Gizmodo ...

Scratches that researchers believe a swimming reptile left on a muddy lake bottom have survived in stone in Bucks County, ...

No amphibian on Earth lives in the ocean. Their porous skin – crucial for gas and water exchange – generally can't cope with ...

Two Late Triassic skeletons from China provide evidence for the first known fully marine stem amphibian, Gerrothorax ...

More than 200 million years ago, the Triassic world was filled with strange reptiles, early dinosaurs and formidable predators. Archosaurs played a major role in this changing ecosystem, long before ...

Palaeontologists have identified the first known fully marine member of the amphibian stem lineage, a new species named Gerrothorax maritimus, based on two nearly complete skeletons from Late Triassic ...

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 ...

In Episode 21, we witnessed one of the greatest mass extinctions in the history of life on Earth.Even those long-fanged ...

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 ...

Curtin-led research has revealed an increase in levels of both acid and hydrogen sulfide in the ocean was the double whammy that wiped out marine life during a mass extinction event 201 million years ...

Just over 200m years ago, the end-Triassic mass extinction killed off more than half of the species of organisms living on Earth’s land and in the oceans. We are only just beginning to understand how ...