Archosauromorphs walked - across a 10,000-mile hellscape - so dinosaurs could run. According to a new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, archosauromorphs, early ancestors of dinosaurs ...

Tucked away in a remote bonebed in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park laid hundreds of fossils, including a fragile jawbone belonging to one of the oldest-known flying reptiles: the pterosaur.

A newly discovered ancient crocodile cousin from a 210-million-year-old Triassic crocodile fossil reveals a powerful ...

The end-Triassic extinction, which happened 201 million years ago, was Earth’s third most severe extinction event since the dawn of animal life. Like today, CO 2 rise and global warming were present, ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A type of vertebrate trace fossil gaining recognition in the field of paleontology is that made by various tetrapods (four-footed land-living vertebrates) as they traveled through ...

CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK, Utah - U.S. park rangers at Capitol Reef National Park in Utah said someone stole fossils that dated back to 250 million years ago, known as the Triassic period.

Could you survive the rise of a bunch of weird creatures in the Triassic Period? In the aftermath of the Great Dying, rapid evolutionary radiation resulted in the rise of a bunch of weird creatures in ...

Everything has its pecking order, and geology is no exception. The cocks of the rocks are the big, swaggering periods of the past that fill books, television programmes and natural-history museums.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The mass extinction that wiped out nearly all life on Earth just before ...

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.

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 ...

Over the next three weeks, we are going look at the three periods of the Mesozoic Era beginning, of course, with the first one: the Triassic Period. The Triassic Period is the oldest, shortest and, ...