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 ...

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 ...

A recently discovered species of ancient crocodile was found to be much sturdier than even our modern-day crocs. Indeed these ...

The period of time before the Triassic was called the Permian. This was a time when a wide variety of animals lived, including a group of animals called the synapsids, which would later evolve ...

The new species underlines the multiplicity of these ancient reptiles during the Triassic, from giants like Mambawakale ruhuhu to smaller animals like the newly described B. eremicarminis, which ...

These strange animals are ... reptile whose lineage stretches back approximately 230 million years to the Triassic period, making it one of the oldest surviving lineages of reptiles.

Earth’s continents are constantly shifting. About 252 to 199 million years ago, all the continents were actually one huge “supercontinent” surrounded by one enormous ocean. Slowly, this ...

A creature that takes to the third dimension ... Pterosaurs, Greek for “wing lizards,” arrived on the scene in the Triassic Period, perhaps as early as around 237 million years ago.

The traits that dinosaurs and pterosaurs evolved at small size, when the animals were squeaking by in a world filled with more imposing reptiles, may have allowed them to survive the end-Triassic ...