The gull-sized pterosaur was found at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona along with hundreds of other fossils dating back 209 million years—to the late Triassic period,—filling a gap in the ...

Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...

During the Triassic period nearly 250 million years ago, a small reptile scurried after insects in the canopy of a lush ...

The newly-found fossils, including those from a pterosaur, North America's oldest-known flying reptile, were discovered by scientists in Arizona and are 209 million years old.

The new site helps fill in a gap in the fossil record that predates the end-Triassic extinction (ETE). Around 201.5 million years ago, volcanic eruptions associated with the break-up of the ...

Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying reptile, that reveal a time of transition when venerable lineages that were ...

Scientists have identified a new species of extinct crocodile kin that reveals they unexpectedly ruled the coasts of the Triassic period. The groundbreaking discovery of the Benggwigwishingasuchus ...

Human-driven factors, including rapid industrialization, rising population, and fossil fuel consumption, may be moving at a pace rivaling natural cataclysms like the End Triassic.

"Before this discovery, gigantism was considered to have emerged during the Jurassic period, approximately 180 million years ago, but Ingentia prima lived at the end of the Triassic, between 210 ...

Their studies suggest a harsh environment at the start of the Early Triassic period, with only sparse and simple life remaining. The fossils from this period indicate a monospecific community ...

A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the ...

This occurred at the end of the Permian period and the start of the Triassic. At the end of the Triassic, another mass extinction occurred. This time, 80% of the Earth's species died off.