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Ruby Reynolds and her father were on the beach when they discovered Ichthyotitan severnensis - the largest-ever marine ...
The Mesozoic wasn’t just the age of dinosaurs. Reptiles of all sorts thrived through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous at ...
Dinosaur embryo found curled up and ready to hatch like a bird In the Triassic ocean, marine reptiles such as the plesiosaurs were kings. Plesiosaurus, an early plesiosaur, was about 4.5 metres ...
The life of a 166-million-year-old reptile has been turned upside down. While Marmoretta oxoniensis was believed to have swum ...
Frogs, salamanders, crocodiles, turtles, and snakes slunk and slithered on and off the Triassic coast, lakes, and rivers. Pterosaurs, a group of flying reptiles, took to the air. On firm ground ...
The Triassic Period was a time of great change ... The origin of this successful group of marine reptiles is still not resolved. While the tuatara may look like a lizard, they are from a distinct ...
The trilobites (a type of marine arthropod whose closest living relative ... Things were no better on land where numerous ...
The well-preserved findings could provide insight into how these Triassic amphibians lived and grew up, researchers reported in a new study published Wednesday (April 2) in the journal PLOS One. It's ...
A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...
Out of the ashes of this extinction, several new groups of reptiles began to evolve in the Triassic. One particularly successful group was called the pseudosuchians. This is the lineage to which ...