By revisiting a fossil unearthed decades ago, paleontologists identified a new type of modified skin jutting out from the reptile’s back like a fan.

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

A strange crest found on ancient reptile fossils suggests birds and dinosaurs may not have the exclusive lock on feather-like features.

Two hundred and fifty one million years ago, the worst mass extinction event Planet Earth has ever seen ruined the life of the Late Permian Period. Known as the Great Dying, this colossal ...

The pterosaur is approximately 209 million years old, dating back to the late Triassic period.

Arizonasaurus was an archosaur from the Middle Triassic. Dinosaurs evolved from a group of reptiles called archosaurs (“ruling reptiles”) around 240–250 million years ago. This was during ...

All of the Triassic archosaurs (the ruling reptiles) who had evolved since the last great extinction were made extinct apart from the dinosaurs, pterosaurs and crocodiles.

Triassic Life: An overview of ancient amphibians, crocodile relatives, early dinosaurs and mammalian ancestors by Meike Rech, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart ...

The study indicates that the entire radiation of archosaurs likely occurred within low-latitude Gondwana following the devastating end-Permian mass extinction about 252 million years ago.

Of all the geological periods, the Triassic was the most fabulous In 50m years it spawned dinosaurs, seafood, geopolitics—and our distant ancestors ...