Around 244 million years ago, sails were a major fashion trend. No less than three extinct crocodile cousins found in different parts of the world -- Arizonasaurus from the southwestern United States, ...

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown crocodile-like reptile species that lived around 237 million years ago during the Triassic Period. It has been described as an "extremely rare" ...

The video explores the turbulent Triassic landscape where early archosaurs emerged as dominant forces after a global ecological collapse. It follows their rapid rise in a world struggling to recover, ...

Reconstruction of a Late Triassic landscape (approximately 215 million years ago). A lagerpetid, a close relative of pterosaurs, is perched on a rock, observing pterosaurs flying overhead.

Introducing, Ingentia prima, a large, four-legged, long-necked dinosaur that lived a whopping 47 million years before giants like Diplodocus and Brontosaurus shook the Earth. Found in Argentina, its ...

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Dinosaurs took 30 million years to become dominant Other animals initially ruled the Triassic landscape Feces fossils show some herbivores ingested charcoal New research that relied heavily on ...

Now you can get the top stories from Gizmodo delivered to your inbox. Enter your email below. It was big and burly, but don’t call this Triassic-era beast a dinosaur. More closely related to mammals, ...

This ancient reptile was an archosaur — part of the same group that would later include dinosaurs, pterosaurs and crocodilians. Scientists recently discovered a partial skeleton of the lizard dating ...

The origins and early origins of archosaurs has been a long-standing puzzle. While the precursors of archosaurs were present during the end of the Permian period — a time during which our own distant ...