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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

A recently discovered species of ancient crocodile was found to be much sturdier than even our modern-day crocs. Indeed these reptiles, knowns as aetosaurs, which are thought to have gone extinct ...

Unknown animals were leaving bird-like footprints in Late Triassic Southern Africa. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 11 / 231129150127.htm ...

During a trip to Maphutseng, a fossil locale in Lesotho, the team found a number of birdlike tracks from the Triassic Period. “It took us a minute to realise we were looking at Trisauropodiscus ...

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.