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. A ...

An artistic reconstruction of the marine amphibian, Gerrothorax maritimus. (Chen Geng, Guizhou University) No amphibian on ...

The surprising discovery of a new species of extinct crocodile relative from the Triassic Favret Formation of Nevada, USA, rewrites the story of life along the coasts during the first act of the Age ...

In Episode 21, we witnessed one of the greatest mass extinctions in the history of life on Earth.Even those long-fanged ...

The forerunners of dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Triassic period were able to migrate across areas of the ancient world deemed completely inhospitable to life, new research suggests. In a paper ...

Everything has its pecking order, and geology is no exception. The cocks of the rocks are the big, swaggering periods of the past that fill books, television programmes and natural-history museums.

New research has revealed that soil erosion and wildfires contributed to a mass extinction event 201 million years ago that ended the Triassic era and paved the way for the rise of dinosaurs in the ...

A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the predator Dinogorgon, whose skull is shown ...

Learn more about archosauromorphs, the early relatives of dinosaurs, that survived inhospitable terrain during the Triassic period. Archosauromorphs walked — across a 10,000-mile hellscape — so ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new Triassic fossil reveals a two-legged, beaked reptile that evolved along the crocodile lineage. (CREDIT: Jorge Gonzalez, ...

The forerunners of dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Triassic period were able to migrate across areas of the ancient world deemed completely inhospitable to life, new research suggests. In a paper ...