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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fact: Dinosaurs started as cute pipsqueaks. The oldest dinosaurs we know about are around 235 million years old, from the middle part of the Triassic Period. Those reptiles didn’t rule anything.

Antonio Ballell, Michael J. Benton, Emily J. Rayfield. Dental form and function in the early feeding diversification of dinosaurs. Science Advances, 2022; 8 (50) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq5201 ...

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 ...

Climate change around the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction may have wiped out some of the competition—leaving dinosaurs to rule the planet.

Climatic controls on the ecological ascendancy of dinosaurs. Current Biology, 2022; DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.064 ...