But these Triassic age amphibian fossils didn’t accumulate over decades or centuries. Instead, they appear to have died during a single mass mortality event. Dozens of specimens were discovered ...

The ways reptiles adapted to the hothouse world created by the greenhouse gases belched out by the volcanoes set them up for ecological success through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

“When we talk of the evolution of early dinosaurs, fossils from the Triassic age are rare,” said Darlington Munyikwa, the deputy director of National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe, who was ...

New Triassic fossil features sharp claws and a nasty ... their collective knowledge to describe various aspects of a new fossil with surprising features for an animal of its age,” she told Ars.

Dinosaurs only started to live large after a mass extinction altered the planet in their favor. Lucas Atwell CC BY-SA 3.0. Everyone knows about the mass extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs.

Triassic herbivores starved to death as diet took toll on teeth, ... Dr Coram added: “Eventually though, after a certain age – we’re not sure quite how many years ...

New findings may have solved the debate around why scientists have never found the missing link between dinosaurs and ...