New research has revealed that soil erosion and wildfires contributed to a mass extinction event 201 million years ago that ended the Triassic era and paved the way for the rise of dinosaurs in the ...

The fossils were uncovered at a remote bonebed in present-day Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. They date back to the late Triassic period and offer paleontologists a snapshot of an ecosystem ...

Teaching faculty in the University of Wisconsin Integrative Biology Department Scott Hartman spoke on how thermal modeling is an effective tool for predicting the End-Triassic Extinction period Sept.

Scientists have identified a new species of extinct crocodile kin that reveals they unexpectedly ruled the coasts of the Triassic period. The groundbreaking discovery of the Benggwigwishingasuchus ...

Museum fossils in England reveal 200-million-year-old coelacanths, fish that swam alongside the first dinosaurs ...

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View post: Jack Black Reveals He Turned Down a Role in a $600 Million Hit Film Paleontologists discovered about 20,000 well-preserved dinosaur tracks from the Triassic period in the Alps. “This ...

An estimated 20,000 prints from mid-sized dinosaurs stretched across 5km of near-vertical rock. It's one of the richest sites ...

A series of fossilized footprints linked to a Triassic-era reptile have been stolen from a Utah national park. The incident is being investigated as an act of vandalism and the theft of “irreplaceable ...

Some ancient tracks in Capitol Reef National Park were “impressed into a muddy matrix and later filled in with a fine sand,” the National Park Service says. It's not clear if these were the stolen ...