The discovery of nearly 20 alligator-size amphibians that died together during the Triassic in what is now Wyoming is ...

Threordatoth chasmatos was one of the last survivors of the procolophonids, a group of lizard-like animals that were once widespread during the Triassic. A fossil hotspot in southern England has ...

A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...

Paleontologists found a group of four-legged Triassic creatures preserved in the same bone bed—but they don’t know what ...

It was the German geologist Friedrich August von Alberti who first marked the Triassic out. He discovered in 1834 that rocks throughout Europe of a certain age contained a unique fossil fauna ...

The Triassic Period was a time of great change. Bookended by extinctions, this era saw huge shifts in the diversity and dominance of life on Earth, ushering in the appearance of many well-known groups ...

It probably spent most, if not all, of its life in the water eating… anything unfortunate enough to venture too far into the ...

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 ...

In the Mesozoic Era, there are fossils that represent both extinct groups and modern groups of animals and plants. During the first period of the Mesozoic Era (Triassic Period), many new types of ...