He says, 'The Triassic is an interesting period. It forms the transition between the late Palaeozoic Era, which was mainly populated by synapsids, or mammal-like reptiles, and the Mesozoic Era, when ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...

This was the birth of the North Atlantic Ocean. Coelophysis lived towards the end of the Triassic Period, as did these other Late Triassic dinosaurs. At the end of the Triassic Period there was a mass ...

Despite the widespread devastation, life recovered during the Triassic period as new species arose and diversified quickly. This also marked the first time the earliest dinosaurs appeared.

The Triassic period, spanning 252 to 201 million years ago, was crucial for the evolution of terrestrial tetrapods, including early dinosaurs, mammalian ancestors, and crocodile relatives.

Read about the Jurassic extinction event that wiped out many species at the beginning of this Period and led to the rise of the dinosaurs.

Paleontologists believed that the very first dinosaurs evolved in Patagonia, but a new study points in a very different ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact ...

The Triassic is ... from the Triassic period, including crocodile relatives - the top predators of their time - giant amphibians, the world's oldest turtle, the first dinosaurs in Europe ...