Paleontologist Victor Beccari was looking through the fossilized reptiles housed at London’s Natural History Museum when he ...

Some 240 million years ago, a storm rolled over the tropical edge of the supercontinent of Pangaea and battered the coastal islands. Rain lashed forests of horsetails and ferns, sweeping plants ...

Mummified, spread-eagled Triassic 'shovel lizards' look like roadkill and likely died in a drought. News. By Stephanie Pappas published 29 August 2022 ...

Lizards are ancient creatures. They were around before the dinosaurs and persisted long after dinosaurs went extinct. We’ve now found they are 35 million years older than we thought they were.

Thriving in the Triassic World. The model results were surprising. "Our results suggest that these reptiles were much harderier to the extreme climate of the Pangaean tropical dead zone, able to ...

The discovery potentially shows that today’s lizards likely originated in the Late Triassic period (about 200 million years ago) and not during the Middle Jurassic as previously believed.

Giving a glimpse of how ichthyosaurs, also known as "fish lizards", ruled the Triassic Sea, Loong Diving in the Ocean -- The Ancient Ocean in Triassic Guizhou kicked off at the National Natural ...

Turtles, lizards, frogs, crocodiles, dinosaurs (which eventually became birds) and the mammaliaform forerunners of mammals all got their start during this time of radical change.

North America has 155 species of lizards classified into eight families native to the continent. A few of these species that arrived to the continent during the years of conquest are now ...

Dinosaurs of the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous lived on every major landmass for more than 150 million years. Often, their supposed reign is compared to what we think of as ours—a paltry ...

A Mysterious Fossil Points to the Origins of Lizards and Snakes. Some 240 million years ago, a storm rolled over the tropical edge of the supercontinent of Pangaea and battered the coastal islands.