A newly described fossil species from China is offering a rare glimpse into life just after the largest extinction in Earth’s history. Preserved with unusual detail, the fossils reveal powerful jaws ...

Learn how fossils from Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park revealed that a Late Triassic crocodile relative may have ...

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.

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 ...

Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according to a study published November 29, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Miengah Abrahams and Emese M.

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The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass extinctions 252 million years ago, not only the dinosaurs but also many other groups ...

Ancient reptilian carnivores that resembled modern crocodiles were fearsome hunters, but their scaly armor and sharp teeth couldn’t protect them from parasites, scientists have discovered.

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown species of a crocodile-like reptile that lived around 250 million years ago. The new species belongs to an extinct group of animals known as ...

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