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 ...

A dinosaur fossil footprint found about 50 years ago is from a plant-eating dinosaur – not a huge meat-eating dinosaur as previously thought, according to a new study. The footprint, which dates back ...

The smallest of newly found fossils can upend what paleontologists know about our history. A team of paleontologists from Virginia Tech and the U.S. Petrified Forest National Park, among others, have ...

A Triassic herbivore, known for its supposed similarities to a modern-day ostrich, has been revealed to have entirely different approach to feeding from previously thought. A Triassic herbivore, known ...

Fossil discovered in 1989 found to be new species of aetosaur — a massive armored crocodile cousin that lived during the late Triassic. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Between two of the sites currently hosting events in the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics lies an immense dinosaur trackway only spotted five months ago. Unusually, the tracks date from the Triassic, the ...

The Triassic period stands out in Earth’s history as the time when dinosaurs first evolved. It was followed by the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods – at the end of the latter, the dinosaurs were wiped ...

A team of paleontologists have discovered the first 'unmistakable' Triassic-era caecilian fossil -- the oldest-known caecilian fossils -- thus extending the record of this small, burrowing animal by ...