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Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...
Paleontologists have uncovered in Arizona a Triassic treasure trove of fossils dating back 209 million years ago.
A cache of Triassic fossils in Arizona has revealed Eotephradactylus mcintireae, or "ash-winged dawn goddess," the oldest ...
Scientists have discovered a new species of pterosaur – a flying reptile that soared above the dinosaurs more than 200 ...
A single deposit has produced a wealth of fossils revealing the late Triassic ecosystem, where giant amphibians cohabited ...
The team named the new pterosaur species Eotephradactylus mcintireae. The generic name means ‘ash-winged dawn goddess’ and references the site’s volcanic ash and the animals’ position near the base of ...
The Triassic Period was a time of great change. Bookended by extinctions, this era saw huge shifts in the diversity and dominance of life on Earth, ushering in the appearance of many well-known groups ...
Weird pig-size animals with tusks were surviving a mass extinction, but not thriving. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. About ...
Most animals had a core temp of 30 degrees Celsius. Heat stress caused them to stop foraging to find shade. After trial and error, researchers, including Hartman, modeled the end-Triassic mass ...
The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...
A new species of ancient reptile has been named after spending more than 200 million years buried in the ground. Threordatoth chasmatos was one of the last survivors of the procolophonids, a group of ...
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.