SUNY Cortland Geology Professor Christopher McRoberts, an internationally respected paleontologist and expert on fossil mollusks of the Triassic period, has earned Distinguished Faculty honors from ...

To his list of professional milestones, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Geology Christopher McRoberts can add another notable accomplishment: namesake of a newly discovered species of prehistoric, eel ...

The Triassic period stands out in Earth’s history as the time when dinosaurs first evolved. It was followed by the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods – at the end of the latter, the dinosaurs were wiped ...

I cannot pass over the Triassic epoch without some allusion to the so-called bird-tracks, so generally believed to mark the introduction of Birds at this time. It is true that in the deposits of the ...

A series of fossilized footprints linked to a Triassic-era reptile have been stolen from a Utah national park. The incident is being investigated as an act of vandalism and the theft of “irreplaceable ...

Boulder, Colo.--The Geological Society of America's September issue of GEOLOGY contains a number of newsworthy items. Topics include: new evidence that Earth's biosphere may have emerged on land over ...

Some ancient tracks in Capitol Reef National Park were “impressed into a muddy matrix and later filled in with a fine sand,” the National Park Service says. It's not clear if these were the stolen ...