The discovery of nearly 20 alligator-size amphibians that died together during the Triassic in what is now Wyoming is providing scientists important clues about these creatures' lives.

The Triassic bite marks do more than indicate that a prehistoric creature was bitten. Spiekman and Mujal were able to use the markings to reconstruct how they think the two Tanystropheus were ...

It was later proved that these bones belonged Triassic super-predator instead. The bones measured up to 30 metres possibly even 35 meters which would make it the largest marine predator and the ...

In the late Triassic, a clade of large reptiles, Pseudosuchia, were widespread in equatorial and tropical regions. Few of these cold-blooded scavengers and predators survived the end-Triassic. In a ...

That said, scientists may never know. "The problem is, the last 30 million years of the Triassic are sort of a black hole; we have almost no fossils in the sea," Sander said.

Triassic Butterfly Park? Fossil find questions the idea that flowers drove the evolution of butterflies and moths By Richard Conniff ...

During the Triassic Period, Poland had a warm climate and was populated by giant amphibians, such as Metoposaurus diagnosticus. Like modern amphibians, Metoposaurus needed water, but an extremely ...

Extinctions during the early Triassic period left Earth a virtual wasteland, largely because life literally couldn't take the heat, a new study suggests. Between 247 to 252 million years ago ...

Earth Roasting Triassic heat exterminated tropical life By Michael Marshall 18 October 2012 Fossil conodonts yielded clues to the climate record (Image: Yadong Sun) ...