Teaching faculty in the University of Wisconsin Integrative Biology Department Scott Hartman spoke on how thermal modeling is an effective tool for predicting the End-Triassic Extinction period Sept.

The Triassic period stands out in Earth’s history as the time when dinosaurs first evolved. It was followed by the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods – at the end of the latter, the dinosaurs were wiped ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have identified a new species of extinct crocodile kin that ...

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A groundbreaking discovery reveals Labrujasuchus expectatus, the 'witch croc', a bipedal, beaked ancestor of crocodiles that ...

Now there’s a new weirdo to add to the Triassic menagerie—a toothless, beaked, bipedal crocodile ancestor. Paleontologists ...

Over the next three weeks, we are going look at the three periods of the Mesozoic Era beginning, of course, with the first one: the Triassic Period. The Triassic Period is the oldest, shortest and, ...

A rock core clock reveals how life recovered after Earth's greatest mass extinction and what drove that process.

Paleontologists have found a fossilized pterosaur precursor with gnarly, scimitar-like claws and a beak, indicating that the reptilian group it belongs to was more diverse than previously thought. The ...

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.

A Triassic herbivore, known for its supposed similarities to a modern-day ostrich, has been revealed to have entirely different approach to feeding from previously thought. A Triassic herbivore, known ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The mass extinction that wiped out nearly all life on Earth just before ...