One of the five greatest mass extinctions took place on Earth about 201.6 million years ago, when three-quarters ... It marked the end of the Triassic period and the beginning of the Jurassic ...

Paleontologists have identified a new species, Microzemiotes sonselaensis, based on a fossilized jaw found in Late Triassic deposits ... developed millions of years ago. It's a reminder that ...

New research is shedding light on what might have happened. A series of extinction events over 200 million years ago may have sealed the fate of many marine reptiles. During the Triassic, between ...

First evolving around 260 million years ago, the procolophonids were an important part of Earth's ecosystems from the end of the Permian and into the Triassic. While they might look lizard-like in ...

The researchers built up a comprehensive picture of the Triassic and Jurassic ecosystems (from about 230 to 200 million years ago) by combining the information from the coprolites with climate ...

indicate that the discovery sheds light into the Carnian-Norian age of the Late Triassic, roughly 220–210 million years ago. Dr Luke Meade, lead author of the study and fellow at the University ...

A new species of ancient reptile has been identified after spending over 200 million years buried ... These reptiles, which first appeared about 260 million years ago, played an important role ...

A remarkable reptile-like creature with an unusual jaw that lived more than 200 million years ... remains dated to the Triassic period (roughly 252-201 million years ago). Over the past few ...

These fascinating flying reptiles weren’t actually dinosaurs, but rather a separate group of flying reptiles that first appeared around 230 million years ago during the Triassic period. Unlike birds ...

Researchers developed a picture of the Triassic and Jurassic ecosystems from 230 to 200 million years ago by combining insights from the faeces analysis with climate data and information from ...

A new analysis of fossil faeces has revealed what the environmental conditions were like at the time dinosaurs started to take over the Earth. Researchers found undigested remains of food, plants ...