Learn how fossils from Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park revealed that a Late Triassic crocodile relative may have ...

If you thought that crocodiles were menacing enough, be glad that you didn’t live in Arizona some 225–201 million years ...

A “peculiar” ancient relative of the crocodile which experts believe began life on four legs before, in adulthood, it learnt how to walk on just two has been revealed in a new study.

Roughly 215 million years ago, an unusual-looking reptile traipsed around what is now Arizona. About the size of a poodle, the creature had large eye sockets, a toothless beak and short arms. During ...

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 ...

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.

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Technological advancements have brought us many things. For paleontologists, it’s introduced the ability to probe softer material—skin, feathers, scales, and hair—found on fossilized creatures. And ...

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. In a paper ...

He also noted that features such as bipedalism, toothless beaks, hollow bones, and large eye sockets are typically associated ...

The largest and most diverse group of Triassic aquatic reptiles gave birth to live young, researchers recently reported. 1 The finding represents the first evidence of viviparity in sauropterygians, ...

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