A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...

Learn about the time period that took place 251 to 199 million ... with red sediments that today contain the best preserved fossils of Triassic life. The oceans teemed with the coiled-shelled ...

Paleontologists believed that the very first dinosaurs evolved in Patagonia, but a new study points in a very different ...

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

The Triassic is one of the most important ... and continues to yield a wealth of new spectacular finds. Rock strata and fossils from this period are particularly well preserved in south-west ...

The discovery of nearly 20 alligator-size amphibians that died together during the Triassic in what is now Wyoming is ...

Earth’s continents are constantly shifting. About 252 to 199 million years ago, all the continents were actually one huge “supercontinent” surrounded by one enormous ocean. Slowly, this ...

The end of the Triassic Period, 201.4 million years ago ... This means there aren’t as many places for us to look for the fossils of land-based animals from the Middle Jurassic because more of the ...

These fossils come from a dinosaur called Nyasasaurus ... Coelophysis lived towards the end of the Triassic Period, as did these other Late Triassic dinosaurs. At the end of the Triassic Period there ...

bookended with layers of rock that contained far fewer fossils, which clearly signified extinctions. The Triassic began 252 million years ago and ended 201 million years ago. The period of time ...

The well-preserved findings could provide insight into how these Triassic amphibians lived and ... This left some of the fossils in the same shape and arrangement as the animals' actual skeletons.