A rice farm in southern Brazil was just found to be home to the fossil of one of the missing links between the ground-based ...

These strange animals are ... reptile whose lineage stretches back approximately 230 million years to the Triassic period, making it one of the oldest surviving lineages of reptiles.

The period of time before the Triassic was called the Permian. This was a time when a wide variety of animals lived, including a group of animals called the synapsids, which would later evolve ...

Read more Largest ever animal may have been Triassic ichthyosaur super-predator The teeth are first known to have appeared some 270 million years ago, in mammal-like reptiles called gorgonopsids.

a dog-sized animal that looked like a cross between a pig and a lizard. These evolved land reptiles thrived during the periods after the Triassic – Jurassic and Cretaceous – and ruled Earth ...

The traits that dinosaurs and pterosaurs evolved at small size, when the animals were squeaking by in a world filled with more imposing reptiles, may have allowed them to survive the end-Triassic ...

The earliest definitive dinosaur is not one animal but an entire ecosystem containing a few different species. There's no universally accepted dinosaur species that lived earlier in time. Dating to ...

Learn about the time period that took place 251 to 199 million years ago. 3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time in Earth's history. Something—a ...