The Triassic is a tale of two histories. One is its natural history, begun after the Great Permian Dying, 252m years ago, when, as happens from time to time, plate tectonics brought Earth’s continents ...
The origin of mammals is shrouded in mystery, but every fossil clue helps rewrite the story. A new discovery on a Mediterranean island is challenging what we know about when—and where—mammal ancestors ...
Evidence of the species, Threordatoth chasmatos, was unearthed from a former quarry in Cromhall, South West England—a site renowned for its abundant fossil remains dated to the Triassic period ...
The study focused on the Polish Basin, a region rich in fossil evidence from the Late Triassic period. By combining data from the coprolites with climate information, plant fossils, and animal ...
“We’re currently lacking the data to show exactly what was happening to the shastasaurids at the end of the Triassic, and whether their extinction was abrupt or staggered. Finding new fossils would ...
Threordatoth chasmatos was one of the last survivors of the procolophonids, a group of lizard-like animals that were once widespread during the Triassic. A fossil hotspot in southern England has ...
Threordatoth chasmatos was one of the last survivors of the procolophonids, a group of lizard-like animals that were once widespread during the Triassic. A fossil hotspot in southern England has ...
As the Triassic period progressed, so did the food remnants in fossils, which researchers suggest indicated changing diets. "What we learned was that the rise of dinosaurs took quite a long time ...
A new analysis of fossil faeces has revealed what the environmental ... dinosaur evolution during the first part of the Late Triassic period. “The research material was collected over 25 years.