Long before dinosaurs became dominant, the Triassic world was ruled by archosaurs whose true behavior is still debated by ...

Paleontologists have found a fossilized pterosaur precursor with gnarly, scimitar-like claws and a beak, indicating that the reptilian group it belongs to was more diverse than previously thought. The ...

A newly discovered ancient crocodile cousin from a 210-million-year-old Triassic crocodile fossil reveals a powerful ...

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 ...

Had a volcano-driven mass extinction not occurred at the end of the Triassic 201 million years ago, we likely would have had something closer to an Age of Crocodiles than the Age of Dinosaurs that ...

The largest and most diverse group of Triassic aquatic reptiles gave birth to live young, researchers recently reported. 1 The finding represents the first evidence of viviparity in sauropterygians, ...

PHOENIX — A Triassic reptile species discovered at Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona was named after a former park superintendent and his wife in the peer-reviewed scientific article that ...

Mammals these days have hair, birds have feathers and reptiles have neither. But the relative nakedness of today's reptiles may not have been the case 247 million years ago, when at least one reptile ...

Technological advancements have brought us many things. For paleontologists, it’s introduced the ability to probe softer material—skin, feathers, scales, and hair—found on fossilized creatures. And ...

History Of This Two-faced Creature And What It Can Teach Us About Mass Extinction. Figuring out what this creature’s face actually looked like would take paleontologists years. But understanding this ...

A reptile from the Middle Triassic had a spectacular crest made from feather-like structures, around 100 million years before the first feathered dinosaurs. Its remains comprise two fossils with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have described a new species of procolophonid reptile, notable for its unique teeth and jaw, found at a fossil hotspot ...