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

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass ...

Namely, a group of primitive amphibians called the temnospondyls. They may have survived the Great Dying by feeding on some ...

Researchers in Brazil have unearthed the fossilized bones of a 237-million-year-old crocodile-like predator, Retymaijychampsa ...

The Triassic period stands out in Earth’s history ... unscathed and gone on to prosper in the gaps left by the ancient crocs. Exactly how they managed still remains unclear, though recent ...

This story appears in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the summer of 2008 an American crocodile left Florida's Biscayne Bay, swam along a yacht-lined canal through the ...

Learn about the time period that took place 251 to 199 million years ago. 3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time in Earth's history. Something—a ...

A research team from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart presents a comprehensive overview of Triassic terrestrial tetrapods and their environments in the Central European Basin.

The rise of the dinosaurs began in the Triassic, there were already predecessors of modern mammals, and predatory crocodile relatives encountered giant amphibians. Research into the environment ...