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Paleontologists found a group of four-legged Triassic creatures preserved in the same bone bed—but they don’t know what ...
Dozens of amphibians perished together on an ancient floodplain around 230 million years ago, according to a study published ...
A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...
It probably spent most, if not all, of its life in the water eating… anything unfortunate enough to venture too far into the ...
The discovery of nearly 20 alligator-size amphibians that died together during the Triassic in what is now Wyoming is ...
A skull of Buettnererpeton bakeri “sees” the light for the first time in 230 million years. This side of the specimen was uncovered in the fossil preparation lab at the University of Wisconsin Geology ...
Skull of Benthosuchus sushkini, an amphibian that lived 230 million years ago. This fossil originates from the Triassic rocks of the Scharzhenga River, Russia. A mounted specimen of Eryops ...
Kermitops is notable for more than just its namesake puppet persona. The early fossil record of amphibians and their ancestors is largely fragmentary, which makes it difficult to understand how ...
parts of a tadpole’s skull and backbone, preserved in a slab of sandstone. More surprisingly, the amphibian fossil turned out to be 161 million years old, breaking the record for the oldest ...
Rock strata and fossils from ... dinosaurs began in the Triassic. There were already predecessors of modern mammals, and predatory crocodile relatives encountered giant amphibians.
Dozens of amphibians perished ... The Nobby Knob fossil assemblage provides an excellent opportunity for future research into Late Triassic ecosystems and metoposaurid biology.