and gave rise to new creatures, including rodent-size mammals and the first dinosaurs. By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's landmasses had coalesced to form Pangaea, a supercontinent ...

Why the Triassic was full of creatures that look a lot like other, more modern species. The Triassic was full of creatures that look a lot like other, more modern species, even though they’re ...

UW graduate student Meg Whitney, for example, is studying the structure of fossil bones and teeth at a microscopic scale to understand how Triassic creatures were affected by extreme seasonality ...

compared to modern bird tracks from March 2018 (marked with 3 cm scale) Abrahams et al. under CC-BY 4.0 Mysterious creatures with bird-like feet roamed around southern Africa more than 210 million ...

A skeletal and scaled reconstruction of the specimen, with a human for scale. Illustration ... southern Brazil offers up a trove of Triassic creatures in the near future—some of these fossils ...

The creatures of the Triassic era were a diverse combination of apocalypse survivors, short-lived wonders, and the earliest forms of dinosaurs called the archosaurs. One such archosaur was the ...