Learn how geological clues preserved in ancient oceans link repeated volcanic eruptions to Triassic marine extinctions.

The fossils were uncovered at a remote bonebed in present-day Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. They date back to the late Triassic period and offer paleontologists a snapshot of an ecosystem ...

Newtonsaurus cambrensis is very large, larger than most, if not all, contemporary predators. For a therapod dinosaur from the Triassic era to be so large is essentially unprecedented. Scientists in ...

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The mass extinction that wiped out nearly all life on Earth just before the dinosaurs evolved may have been caused by a global temperature drop rather than a rapidly warming climate. The End Triassic ...

View post: Amazon’s Bestselling Snow Cleats With 'Solid Grip' Are On Sale for as Little as $15 Right Now Paleontologists discovered about 20,000 well-preserved dinosaur tracks from the Triassic period ...

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 million years ago. This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and ...

A 28-centimetre fragment of fossilised jawbone—first unearthed on the Welsh coast in 1899—has now been formally recognised as part of a previously unknown, large-bodied theropod dinosaur. Researchers ...

Could you survive the rise of a bunch of weird creatures in the Triassic Period? In the aftermath of the Great Dying, rapid evolutionary radiation resulted in the rise of a bunch of weird creatures in ...

The best jaw for hunting fast fish is long and full of sharp teeth. This makes sense to us, but it also makes sense in nature: New fossil evidence from Virginia Tech geoscientists revealed that ...