During the Triassic period nearly 250 million years ago, a small reptile scurried after insects in the canopy of a lush ...

Coelophysis is an early theropod dinosaur, a pioneering member of a group that will one day give rise to some of the biggest carnivores ever to live. He’s a lot more humble in his size, however ...

All Triassic archosaurs, apart from dinosaurs, pterosaurs and crocodiles, went extinct. This opened up many of the environments that the archosaurs had occupied, paving the way for the surviving ...

A recent study points to bizarre, sail-backed reptiles as the earliest definitive archosaurs -- one of the most successful and important evolutionary dynasties in the history of life on earth.

Bipedalism evolved more than twice among archosaurs, and it is a characteristic of basal dinosaurs and a prerequisite for avian flight. Nevertheless, the reasons for the evolution of bipedalism among ...

Los Angeles, CA (July 10, 2024) — The surprising discovery of a new species of extinct crocodile relative from the Triassic Favret Formation of Nevada, USA, rewrites the story of life along the ...

During the Late Triassic, some huge reptiles lived on land, others lived in the water, and it’s long been believed that they didn’t typically interact with one another. But the discovery of a ...

The new study pushes fossil evidence for the reproductive biology of archosaurs back by 50 million years, to the Middle Triassic, said the study.

The fossilized remains of an early reptile dating back about 250 million years have been uncovered in the unlikeliest of places — Antarctica. The discovery shows how wildlife recovered after … ...

It's how paleontology, like any other field of science, advances. Before the Triassic period, before dinosaurs, before even the Great Dying that was the End-Permian mass extinction, gorgonopsids ruled ...

The findings, together with other recent discoveries, also highlight how diverse and successful a group the nondinosaur archosaurs were, even if they have fewer representatives among our current ...