Frogs, salamanders, crocodiles, turtles, and snakes slunk and slithered on and off the Triassic coast, lakes, and rivers. Pterosaurs, a group of flying reptiles, took to the air. On firm ground ...

To understand why turtles are not dinosaurs, we need to look at the broader reptilian family tree. In This Article Dinosaurs were a diverse group of reptiles that appeared during the Triassic ...

The archosaurs were a component of the diapsid lineage, which includes many successful Mesozoic groups such as the dinosaurs and birds, pterosaurs, crocodilians and turtles. By the Late Triassic there ...

Some turtle and tortoise adaptations, such as their hard shells, evolved during the Triassic and Jurassic periods. They ...

The Triassic period, spanning 252 to 201 million years ago, was crucial for the evolution of terrestrial tetrapods, including early dinosaurs, mammalian ancestors, and crocodile relatives.

“The configuration of the fossil turtle suggests that the shell was possibly trodden on by a large sauropod dinosaur,” reads a paper on the finding which was published by the Swiss Journal of ...

The Triassic period stands out in Earth’s history as the time when dinosaurs first evolved. It was followed by the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods – at the end of the latter, the dinosaurs ...

The Triassic is one of the most important periods ... top predators of their time - giant amphibians, the world's oldest turtle, the first dinosaurs in Europe, aetosaurs and remains of the first ...

A research team from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart presents a comprehensive overview of Triassic terrestrial tetrapods and their environments in the Central European Basin.