These strange animals are ... whose lineage stretches back approximately 230 million years to the Triassic period, making it one of the oldest surviving lineages of reptiles.

A rice farm in southern Brazil was just found to be home to the fossil of one of the missing links between the ground-based ...

The period of time before the Triassic was called the Permian. This was a time when a wide variety of animals lived, including a group of animals called the synapsids, which would later evolve ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they may have actually arisen in tougher conditions near the equator ...

Truly unusual’ fossil discovery shows us what fish ate 66 million years ago - Bizarre fossil found on Denmark’s Cliffs of ...

The earliest definitive dinosaur is not one animal but an entire ecosystem containing a few different species. There's no universally accepted dinosaur species that lived earlier in time. Dating to ...

Flying also allows an animal to cover distance more quickly ... Pterosaurs, Greek for “wing lizards,” arrived on the scene in the Triassic Period, perhaps as early as around 237 million ...

Less than 5 percent of the animal species in the seas survived ... terrestrial realm's transition from the Permian to the Triassic period." We ascended through sheep-ranching country toward ...

All continents during the Triassic Period were part of a single land mass called Pangaea. This meant that differences between animals or plants found in different areas were minor. The Triassic ...

Scientists think they know where the missing pieces to the puzzle of the evolution of dinosaurs could be found.

WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus, meat-eating brutes like Tyrannosaurus ...