Researchers have uncovered evidence of what led to the Triassic-Jurassic extinction about 201.6 million years ago. Columbia Climate School researchers suggest that sudden volcanic winter was the real ...

Coelophysis was a slender carnivorous dinosaur that lived during a time when Earth looked nothing like it does today. Fossil discoveries in the southwestern United States have made it one of the ...

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Scientists have identified a new species of extinct crocodile kin that reveals they unexpectedly ruled the coasts of the Triassic period. The groundbreaking discovery of the Benggwigwishingasuchus ...

The Triassic period marked a chaotic chapter in Earth’s history following the planet’s largest mass extinction. This ...

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 ...

Whoever the trackmakers are, these footprints establish the origin of bird-like feet at least as early as the Late Triassic Period. The authors add: “ Trisauropodiscus tracks are known from numerous ...

Three-toed fossil footprints that date back more than 210 million years were pressed into soft mud by bipedal reptiles with feet like a bird’s, a new analysis of the tracks has revealed. The ...

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 ...

View post: Arc'teryx's 'Fantastic' Beta SL Jacket Is $74 Off at REI Right Now Paleontologists discovered about 20,000 well-preserved dinosaur tracks from the Triassic period in the Alps. “This ...

The Triassic period represents a pivotal chapter in Earth’s history, marking not only the recovery from the Permo‐Triassic mass extinction but also a remarkable burst in marine reptile diversity.