These lived during the Triassic period and are typically not considered true dinosaurs. Instead, they’re usually viewed as ...

A team of international scientists have discovered 240-million-year-old fossils from the Triassic period in China that one scientist described as a "long and snake-like, mythical Chinese dragon." ...

As a period of geologic time, the boundaries of the Triassic are defined on the basis of rocks and the fossil record. It was the German geologist Friedrich August von Alberti who first marked the ...

However, evidence of this creature has always been tied to the much older Triassic period, including evidence of a Triassic period ichthyosaur found by researchers back in 2020. This particular ...

According to a study published Thursday in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, the fossils are from giant ichthyosaurs that roamed the world’s oceans at the end of the Triassic period over 200 ...

University of Bristol 3D reconstruction of the fossil fragments Ms Patrick said: "During the Triassic, there was a flurry of different reptile groups emerging related to modern crocodiles ...

They found a pattern with the same characteristics on a fossil unearthed in Utah from a stratum dating back to the early Triassic Period (250 million years ago). Sea lilies are sometimes called ...

Hans-Dieter (Hans) Sues, senior scientist and curator of fossil vertebrates in the department ... wrote The Rise of Reptiles (2019), co-authored Triassic Life on Land (2010), and edited or co ...

A fossil of a sea creature dating back 190 million ... Often misidentified as "swimming dinosaurs", they first appeared in the early Triassic period (251 million to 199 million years ago) The ...

Earlier failed attempts at the split formed rift valleys in North America and Africa filled with red sediments that today contain the best preserved fossils of Triassic life. The oceans teemed ...