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

The forerunners of dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Triassic period were able to migrate across areas of the ancient world deemed completely inhospitable to life, new research suggests. In a paper ...

Long before dinosaurs became dominant, the Triassic world was ruled by archosaurs whose true behavior is still debated by scientists. Fossil evidence suggests these animals relied on ambush, speed, ...

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

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.

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A newly discovered ancient crocodile cousin from a 210-million-year-old Triassic crocodile fossil reveals a powerful prehistoric crocodile predator built to crush larger prey. A newly identified ...