A 10-year-old girl out on a shoreline stroll on a Wales beach literally stumbled upon five prehistoric dinosaur footprints.

Learn about the time period that took place 251 to 199 million ... the evolution of dinosaurs and the first mammals in the late Triassic, starting around 230 million years ago.

Dr Mike Day is the curator of fossil reptiles at the Museum. He says, 'The Triassic is an interesting period. It forms the transition between the late Palaeozoic Era, which was mainly populated by ...

Plesiosaurs appeared in the late Triassic period about 203 million years ago and ruled the oceans unchallenged for millions of years. One of these marine reptiles, Elasmosaurus, evolved to be ...

New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...

There's no universally accepted dinosaur species that lived earlier in time. Dating to around 230 million years ago, in the Late Triassic Period, the Ischigualasto Formation in Argentina contains an ...

Pterosaurs originated during the Triassic Period — well before ... didn’t start to become larger until the late Jurassic Period, between about 160 million and 145 million years ago.

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 ...