In the early Triassic period, the Earth experienced extreme heat, turning large land areas uninhabitable. New research reveals that some ancient reptiles managed to survive and migrate through harsh ...

The Late Triassic was full of animals that look almost familiar, right up until you place them on the evolutionary tree. One ...

A groundbreaking discovery reveals Labrujasuchus expectatus, the 'witch croc', a bipedal, beaked ancestor of crocodiles that ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have identified a new species of extinct crocodile kin that ...

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.

Now there’s a new weirdo to add to the Triassic menagerie—a toothless, beaked, bipedal crocodile ancestor. Paleontologists ...

Everything has its pecking order, and geology is no exception. The cocks of the rocks are the big, swaggering periods of the past that fill books, television programmes and natural-history museums.

Over the next three weeks, we are going look at the three periods of the Mesozoic Era beginning, of course, with the first one: the Triassic Period. The Triassic Period is the oldest, shortest and, ...

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To his list of professional milestones, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Geology Christopher McRoberts can add another notable accomplishment: namesake of a newly discovered species of prehistoric, eel ...

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 ...