Learn how fossils from Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park revealed that a Late Triassic crocodile relative may have started life on four legs before walking on two as an adult.

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 ...

It was big and burly, but don’t call this Triassic-era beast a dinosaur. More closely related to mammals, this oversized herbivore is rocking the paleontological world—and changing what we know of ...

Teaching faculty in the University of Wisconsin Integrative Biology Department Scott Hartman spoke on how thermal modeling is an effective tool for predicting the End-Triassic Extinction period Sept.

A remarkable reptile-like creature with an unusual jaw that lived more than 200 million years ago has been described as a new species. Evidence of the species, Threordatoth chasmatos, was unearthed ...

According to a new study, scientists believe the largest animals to ever live, lived in the sea. In fact, a new discovery has led them to believe that one of the largest animals was a Triassic period ...

In a review, published today in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science, scientists reveal that predators became meaner and prey animals adapted rapidly to find new ways to survive. On land, the ...

A new species of hulking ancient herbivore would have overshadowed its relatives. Fossils found in Poland belong to a new species that roamed during the Late Triassic, a period some 237 million to 201 ...

Life restoration of Elessaurus gondwanoccidens, from the Sanga do Cabral Formation (Lower Triassic), Brazil. (Artwork by Márcio L. Castro) Life restoration of Elessaurus gondwanoccidens, from the ...

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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 ...