The sweltering deserts of present day Nevada were once covered with water and home to an extinct ... They lived during the Middle Triassic Period, or between 247.2 and 237 million years ago.

The animals' fossilized remains ... It lived during the Triassic period (252 million to 201 million years ago) and may have frequented freshwater lakes and rivers as breeding grounds.

During the first period of the Mesozoic Era (Triassic Period), many ... As it fell on the seas, the water became acidic enough to stop animals from being able to grow shells and killing them ...

The Triassic period ... The Permian period’s mass extinction had wiped out the mammals that could have been competitors for these reptiles on land and in water. One example of these mammals ...

They only had 120 days to recover the fossils before water levels once again increased ... the mass extinction at the end of the Triassic Period and diversified through the Jurassic Period ...

Like all amphibians, they find themselves at home in both water and land ... record of this small animal by roughly 35 million years, all the way back to the Triassic Period (roughly 250 million ...

Scientists have identified a new species of extinct crocodile kin that reveals they unexpectedly ruled the coasts of the Triassic period ... presence beside water in the Western Hemisphere.

during the early Triassic Period. Fossils of the reptile were first found in China in 1972. But researchers have struggled to understand the animal’s feeding behavior and lifestyle because none ...

Stegosaurus, Allosaurus and Diplodocus are among the Jurassic Period’s most ... No other animal has anything similar. Palaeontologists have had more luck finding dinosaurs where islands sat in ...

In fact, a new discovery has led them to believe that one of the largest animals was a Triassic period predator that was somewhat similar to modern-day whales. Based on the new discovery ...