An ancient leg bone uncovered in Africa might provide a step forward in understanding how dinosaurs and their close relatives ...

Why Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest. Season 1 Episode 44 | 9m 7s Video has Closed Captions | CC. The Triassic was full of creatures that look a lot like other, more modern species, even ...

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 ...

Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...

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 ...

‘Triassic revolution’ by Michael J. Benton and Feixiang Wu, Frontiers in Earth Science 10, 899541 (doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.899541 Journal Frontiers in Earth Science ...

April 9 (UPI) --A newly discovered Triassic ichthyosaur species was one of the largest animals in history, according to paleontologists at the University of Manchester in England.When Paul de la ...

It was big and burly, but don’t call this Triassic-era beast a dinosaur. More closely related to mammals, this oversized herbivore is rocking the paleontological world—and changing what we ...

In a review, published today in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science, scientists reveal that predators became meaner and prey animals adapted rapidly to find new ways to survive.On land, the ...

A new analysis of three-toed fossil footprints that date back more than 210 million years reveals that they were created by bipedal reptiles with feet like a bird’s.

Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according to a study published November 29, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Miengah Abrahams and Emese ...