One of the most devastating extinctions in Earth's history is best known for what didn't die—dinosaurs. But the end-Triassic ...

The end-Triassic extinction is often overshadowed by the disaster that killed the dinosaurs, but on its own it ranks among ...

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

A rock core clock reveals how life recovered after Earth's greatest mass extinction and what drove that process.

The Shuvosauridae family is a group of ancient crocodiles that evolved body plans similar to bipedal, small-armed theropod ...

A new toothless, tiny-armed, bipedal species has been found in New Mexico, dating from the late Triassic, about 237 to 201 ...

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

Researchers used fossils like this of Early Triassic conodonts, an eel-like marine animal, for oxygen isotope measurement and past temperature reconstruction. Image by Yadong Sun. Some 250 million ...

When Brooks Britt, a geological sciences professor at BYU, searched through the latest Triassic sandstone samples in his lab, he expected to find bones of early crocodiles and dinosaurs. Instead, he ...

As the great 20th century paleontologist William Diller Matthew once wrote, "The story of life on Earth is a splendid drama, as interesting as we watch its action and study the interplay of causes and ...