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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period ... Triassic period." We ascended through sheep-ranching country toward the Lootsberg Pass. The rocks that surrounded us date from the ...

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 rise of mammals The earliest known mammals first appeared about 225 to 200 million years ago during the late Triassic period. This was about the same time that the earliest dinosaurs first ...

Two Paleontology and Evolution students from the University of Bristol have undertaken the first ever study which describes ...

Paleontologists found a group of four-legged Triassic creatures preserved in the same bone bed—but they don’t know what ...