The neck has 32 separate vertebrae — longer than the creature’s body and tail combined,” said a study published by Cambridge ...

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.

The Triassic period represents a pivotal chapter in Earth’s history, marking not only the recovery from the Permo‐Triassic mass extinction but also a remarkable burst in marine reptile diversity.

A series of extinction events over 200 million years ago may have sealed the fate of many marine reptiles. During the Triassic, between 252-200 million years ago, marine reptiles rapidly diversified ...

Living at the extremes of the Triassic era would’ve been pretty rough. ... long-necked marine reptiles have been successful on Earth for millions of years.

An ancient marine reptile had a sneaky way of catching its prey, grabbing meals with a small, needle-toothed head at the end of its long, slender neck. Tanystropheus, which lived about 240 million ...

Fossils have revealed an ancient marine reptile with a loosely connected jaw that allowed its throat to balloon out to a massive size so it could filter feed the way right whales do today.

Tanystropheus is the only marine reptile known to suffer such unceremonious decapitation. ... spreading across Triassic shorelines from modern Europe to China and lasting for 10 million years.

Archosaurs were once “ruling reptiles” that split into two groups during the Triassic. Both of these groups have surviving representatives: the descendants of dinosaurs (aka birds ) and ...

A father and daughter discovered fossil remnants of a giant ichthyosaur that scientists say may have been the largest-known marine reptile to ever swim the seas.

(CNN) — An unusual ancient marine reptile may have gulped down tons of shrimplike prey using a feeding technique similar to one used by some modern whales. The reptile, named Hupehsuchus ...