Mummified, spread-eagled Triassic 'shovel lizards' look like roadkill and likely died in a drought. News. By Stephanie Pappas published 29 August 2022 ...

Giving a glimpse of how ichthyosaurs, also known as "fish lizards", ruled the Triassic Sea, Loong Diving in the Ocean -- The Ancient Ocean in Triassic Guizhou kicked off at the National Natural ...

While they look very much like lizards they are in fact a distinct lineage. They were more diverse than the ancestors of modern lizards during the Triassic, performing similar ecological roles that ...

The discovery potentially shows that today’s lizards likely originated in the Late Triassic period (about 200 million years ago) and not during the Middle Jurassic as previously believed.

A new species of small, venomous reptile, Microzemiotes sonselaensis, has been discovered in the Late Triassic Chinle Formation in northeastern Arizona. The findings, recently published in PeerJ ...

Lizards are ancient creatures. They were around before the dinosaurs and persisted long after dinosaurs went extinct. We’ve now found they are 35 million years older than we thought they were.

Pterosaurs, Greek for “wing lizards,” arrived on the scene in the Triassic Period, perhaps as early as around 237 million years ago.

Around 201 million years ago, at the dawn of the Jurassic Period, a different mass extinction allowed dinosaurs to become the “terrible lizards” we so adore.

Here’s a short list of Triassic animals that evolved forms and behaviors we now associate with dinosaurs, long before the “terrible lizards” would do the same. Postosuchus While smaller ...

At the beginning of the Triassic period, dinosaurs were one of many lizards roaming the Earth. "Most of the animals in the ecosystem were the various relatives of crocodiles," Qvarnström says.

Although most lizards look like smaller versions of dinosaurs, dinosaurs and lizards split off from each other in the Late ...