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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 earliest known dinosaur fossils are at least 230 million years old, and by 200 million years ago, dinosaurs dominated global ecosystems. Reconstructing food webs using fossil evidence of feeding ...

Evolutionary tree showing how dinosaur limb adaptation expanded through the Triassic period until it was greater overall than the spread of locomotion types in their competitors, including ...

Symposium on Faunal Change Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary (1984 : Berkeley, Calif.) Papers from the Symposium on Faunal Change Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary, held Oct. 31, 1984, in ...

Millions of cubic miles of lava erupted over some 600,000 years, separating what are now the Americas, Europe and North Africa. It marked the end of the Triassic period and the beginning of the ...

Deposits in Morocco associated with the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction, 201.6 million years ago. Red sediments in many locations around the world contain Triassic-era fossils. The white band on top ...