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The museum's paleontology exhibit showcases fossils from the Ice Age to the late Triassic Period, including some of the earliest dinosaurs found in North America. Researchers at the museum ...
The smallest of newly found fossils can upend what paleontologists ... the history of caecilians 35 million years back to Triassic Period, roughly 250 million to 200 million years ago.
This discovery opens a window onto a massive event from the late Triassic period. Researchers have ... Temnospondyl fossils are often found in groups, suggesting social behavior or mass mortality ...
These strange layers of fossils suggest that recurring ... Lystrosaurs were rare survivors of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, a period of runaway climate change 252 million years ago that ...
They pinpointed that dispersal to shortly after a period ... fossils in our developing understanding of this time. “Over the past two decades, about 30 new species have been described from ...
pseudosuchians were a common form of reptile during the Triassic Period. MORE: Reconstructed DNA of ancient bird could change how scientists study extinct species: Report The fossils were ...
Researchers who studied the fossils contend that they belong to a previously-unknown giant ichthyosaur, Ichthyotitan severnensis, which probably went extinct at the end of the Triassic period.
But some newly found fossils of a lesser known amphibian ... all the way back to the Triassic Period (roughly 250 million to 200 million years ago). This fossil has a reddish hue and offers ...
The reptile, named Hupehsuchus nanchangensis, lived in Earth’s oceans between 247 million and 249 million years ago, during the early Triassic Period. Fossils of the reptile were first found in ...
After the demise of the dinosaurs following an asteroid strike 66 million years ago, mammals became Earth's dominant land animals. But that does not mean they went unchallenged. In South America, for ...
The Museum of Texas Tech houses fossils from the Triassic, Ice Age. Here's a behind the scenes look into the paleontology collection.