To date, footprints represent the only evidence in Australia of dinosaurs from the Triassic period (251.9 million to 201.3 million years ago).

He and his team used casts of one of the prints, made by geologists and the Queensland Museum back in 1964, to create a 3D model of the dinosaur’s foot to better understand it’s entire body.

The museum said the specific dinosaur could have been similar to the Camelotia, whose fossils have been discovered in Southwest England from rocks dating back to a similar period. Detail images of ...

A fossil being studied at the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology reminds scientists of a mythical ...

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass extinctions 252 million years ago, not only the dinosaurs but also many other groups ...

Dinosaurs are thought to have first appeared during the Triassic Period in temperate southerly latitudes about 231 million years ago, when most of the planet’s land was joined together in one ...

Some dinosaurs may have evolved traits that allowed them to endure freezing winters during the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic period. It could explain how they came to dominate the planet for ...

What is Jurassic Quest? Jurassic Quest says it has worked with paleontologists to give its life-size dinosaur models "realistic likenesses, movement and sound." It has toured since 2013 ...

Lifelike dinosaur models will fill the Convention Center on Friday, Saturday and Sunday with more than 100 realistic dinosaur figures, rides and displays.

Early dinosaurs' surprising ability to tolerate freezing temperatures and long, harsh winters may have been what allowed them to dominate Earth's land environments after the end-Triassic extinction, a ...