The end-Triassic extinction, which happened 201 million years ago, was Earth’s third most severe extinction event since the dawn of animal life. Like today, CO 2 rise and global warming were present, ...

DINOSAURS of the late Triassic period had competition in the form of a huge ancestor of today’s mammals, scientists in Poland have revealed. Researchers have named Lisowicia bojani, an elephant-sized ...

Everything has its pecking order, and geology is no exception. The cocks of the rocks are the big, swaggering periods of the past that fill books, television programmes and natural-history museums.

3D models of the jaw and associated middle ear bones of the Triassic mammal ancestor "Thrinaxodon" show that the switch to mammal-like hearing with an eardrum evolved much earlier than previously ...

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

It was relatively small compared to the giants that would follow it later in Earth’s history. With a hip height of approximately 0.3 meters (about a foot) and a length of perhaps a meter (roughly ...

Roughly 201 million years ago, the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event wiped out about 76% of all marine and land species on Earth. This cleared the stage for dinosaurs to take over for the next 135 ...

Two exceptionally well preserved reptile skeletons dating back to the Triassic period have totally rewritten our understanding of the evolution of skin appendages such as feathers and hair. Known as ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A recently discovered species of ancient crocodile was found to be much sturdier than even our modern-day crocs. Indeed ...

A fossil find from Poland shows that dinosaurs were not the only big creatures on Earth around 200 million years ago. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's going ...