An artist’s conception shows a type of dicynodont known as Dicynodon. (Illustration by Marlene Hill Donnelly) Dental exams conducted on fossils from more than 200 million years ago suggest that the ...

Almost 300 million years ago, the world was ruled by monsters — Permian Monsters, that is. Permian Monsters include mammalian ancestors that predate dinosaurs, but were almost completely wiped out due ...

A new Triassic crocodylomorph from Gloucester sheds light on early crocodile evolution and pre-extinction ecosystems.

Teaching faculty in the University of Wisconsin Integrative Biology Department Scott Hartman spoke on how thermal modeling is an effective tool for predicting the End-Triassic Extinction period Sept.

Long before dinosaurs became dominant, the Triassic world was ruled by archosaurs whose true behavior is still debated by ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Are you a fan of dragons? If so, you may have reason to celebrate a recent discovery. The discoveries are in relation to the dinocephalosaurus orientalis, a dinosaur that lived ...

It was relatively small compared to the giants that would follow it later in Earth’s history. With a hip height of approximately 0.3 meters (about a foot) and a length of perhaps a meter (roughly ...

According to a new study, scientists believe the largest animals to ever live, lived in the sea. In fact, a new discovery has led them to believe that one of the largest animals was a Triassic period ...

Between two of the sites currently hosting events in the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics lies an immense dinosaur trackway only ...

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 ...

The Kimberley region in the north-west corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of ...

The end-Triassic extinction, which happened 201 million years ago, was Earth’s third most severe extinction event since the dawn of animal life. Like today, CO 2 rise and global warming were present, ...