An international team of scientists, including a senior researcher at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, has uncovered new evidence of ancient wildfires that reshapes our understanding of ...

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass extinctions 252 million years ago, not only the dinosaurs but also many other groups ...

More than 200 million years ago, life on Earth was experimenting with new forms. The Triassic period gave rise to animals that look oddly familiar today, yet belonged to very different lineages.

WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying reptile, that reveal a time of transition when ...

Long before dinosaurs became dominant, the Triassic world was ruled by archosaurs whose true behavior is still debated by scientists. Fossil evidence suggests these animals relied on ambush, speed, ...

A groundbreaking study is reshaping our understanding of crocodile evolution by pinpointing the onset of slow growth rates to the Late Triassic period, much earlier than the previously assumed Early ...

Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according to a new study. Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according ...

The earliest known dinosaur fossils are at least 230 million years old, and by 200 million years ago, dinosaurs dominated global ecosystems. Reconstructing food webs using fossil evidence of feeding ...

A newly described species of ichthyosaur is likely the largest species of marine reptile ever to be formally described, according to a study published April 17 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by ...

Whoever the trackmakers are, these footprints establish the origin of bird-like feet at least as early as the Late Triassic Period. The authors add: “ Trisauropodiscus tracks are known from numerous ...