Before this discovery, evidence of venom use in Upper Triassic reptiles was limited to isolated teeth from another species, ...

Frogs, salamanders, crocodiles, turtles, and snakes slunk and slithered on and off the Triassic coast, lakes, and rivers. Pterosaurs, a group of flying reptiles, took to the air. On firm ground ...

Prior to this, evidence for venom use in reptiles from the Late Triassic was limited to isolated teeth from the genus ...

Around 100 million years later (in a period known as the Triassic), the first bony animals ... Imagine a flying squirrel hybridised with a lizard. All known members of this animal group order ...

Pterosaurs, Greek for “wing lizards,” arrived on the scene in the Triassic Period, perhaps as early as around 237 million years ago. These original vertebrate fliers preceded birds by at least ...

Even though direct fossil evidence of fuzzy Triassic dinosaurs has yet to be found, paleontologists expect they were fluffy reptiles given that both dinosaurs and pterosaurs of the Jurassic and ...

We also find pockets of Triassic and Jurassic rock in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales, which were once islands in a shallow sea. Jurassic ammonites, bivalves, mammaliaform teeth and lizards are ...

Dinosaurs are archosaurs, a larger group of reptiles that first appeared about 251 million years ago, near the start of the Triassic Period. Some other non-dinosaur reptiles are also archosaurs, ...

Out of the ashes of this extinction, several new groups of reptiles began to evolve in the Triassic. One particularly successful group was called the pseudosuchians. This is the lineage to which ...