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 ...

New discoveries of small animals that lived more than 200 million years ago are changing how paleontologists think about ...

Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like ... Trisauropodiscus at four sites in Lesotho dating to the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic Periods. The authors also provided a detailed field ...

The earliest dinosaurs date back to around 243 million years ago, but the animals were pretty small and not especially diverse. Only after the end-Triassic mass extinction, in the Jurassic ...

which could have caused the deaths of this particular group of animals. You may like Alligator-size amphibians died together in Triassic Wyoming, puzzling 'bone bed' reveals Refuge from the worst ...

The Triassic period, from 252–201 million years ago ... reptiles as the world rebuilt itself after the end-Permian mass extinction. “Altogether, animals on land and in the oceans were speeding up, ...

He describes lagerpetids as “lightly built animals that lived side-by-side ... forelimb diversity within Ornithodira during the Late Triassic.” Until 2020, it was thought that lagerpetids ...

Hartman’s research focuses on the main forcing mechanism that determines what animals survive and what anatomy or physiology contributes to their survival. Hartman began by sharing some background ...

Threordatoth chasmatos was one of the last survivors of the procolophonids, a group of lizard-like animals that were once widespread during the Triassic. A fossil hotspot in southern England has ...

The explosion of animal diversity really kicked off during the Cambrian period, about 540 million years ago. The first animals that lived on Earth roamed the seas. The oceans were ruled by jawless ...

After the demise of the dinosaurs following an asteroid strike 66 million years ago, mammals became Earth's dominant land animals. But that does not mean they went unchallenged. In South America, for ...