Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

Despite Earth's most devastating mass extinction wiping out over 80% of marine life and half of land species, a group of ...

First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...

The University of Birmingham and University of Bristol researchers found that these ancient reptiles were ancestors of ...

The Triassic Period (252-201 million years ago) began after Earth's worst-ever extinction event devastated life. The Permian-Triassic extinction event, also known as the Great Dying, took place ...

The forerunners of dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Triassic period were able to migrate across areas of the ancient world ...

Triassic Period (252 to 201 million years ago) This period of time was when dinosaurs first evolved. The continents we live on today were part of one land mass that scientists call Pangaea.

Roughly 201 million years ago, the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event wiped out about 76% of all marine and land species on Earth. This cleared the stage for dinosaurs to take over for the next ...

During the Triassic Period, when dinosaurs first evolved, all the continents we know today were clumped together in a single landmass called Pangaea.Over tens of millions of years, Pangaea split ...

The Permian period immediately predated the dinosaurs. Ronchi said he was also “surprised by the abundance and preservation” of the fossils when he first saw the images.

At the beginning of the Triassic period, dinosaurs were one of many lizards roaming the Earth. "Most of the animals in the ecosystem were the various relatives of crocodiles," Qvarnström says.

Millions of years before the most famous meat-eating dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, roamed the planet, other massive creatures claimed the role of apex predators in ...