The life of a 166-million-year-old reptile has been turned upside down. While Marmoretta oxoniensis was believed to have swum ...

The Mesozoic wasn’t just the age of dinosaurs. Reptiles of all sorts thrived through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous at ...

Imagine a creature that watched dinosaurs rise and fall, endured the shattering impact of asteroids, and quietly survived as ...

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

The park, located in northeastern Arizona, is famous for its late-Triassic-era fossils of trees, plants, reptiles and dinosaurs. John Burcham He and his colleagues found 16 of the animal’s ...

The well-preserved findings could provide insight into how these Triassic amphibians lived and grew up, researchers reported in a new study published Wednesday (April 2) in the journal PLOS One. It's ...

During the Late Triassic Period (about 237 to 201.4 million ... To figure out what these long-gone reptiles were likely eating, the team analyzed the shape of fossilized teeth and skulls.

A skull of the Triassic amphibian Buettnererpeton bakeri gets uncovered for the first time in 230 million years. Researchers found it in a cache of skeletons that were well-preserved and appear to ...

Paleontologists are uncovering a bonebed containing more than 19 giant amphibian skeletons from the Popo Agie Formation near ...

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's swampiest corners for millions of years. But their evolutionary history tells a ...

The discovery of nearly 20 alligator-size amphibians that died together during the Triassic in what is now Wyoming is providing scientists important clues about these creatures' lives.