Learn more about archosauromorphs, the early relatives of dinosaurs, that survived inhospitable terrain during the Triassic ...

Lystrosaurs were rare survivors of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, a period of runaway climate change 252 million years ago that killed an estimated 70% of land vertebrates and 96% of marine ...

They were more diverse than the ancestors of modern lizards during the Triassic, performing similar ecological roles that lizards do today. 'During the early Triassic the world was still dominated by ...

Lizards are ancient creatures ... lizard that skittered around what is now southern England during the late Triassic, around 205 million years ago. It likely snapped up insects in its razor ...

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.

[Photo by Wang Qian/China Daily] 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 ...

monitor lizards, and iguanas, representing an independent evolution of a venom system. This discovery not only expands the known diversity of Late Triassic reptiles but also contributes to the ...

Sponsor Message 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 ...

Triassic pterosaurs had tails ... But the dinosaurs, along with frogs, lizards and tortoises, sailed through. And the rest is history—which, in its natural as well as its human version, is ...