These were the Saurischia, which includes the sauropods, and the Ornithoscelida, which includes the theropods and ornithischians. By the end of the Triassic, some of these early dinosaurs were ...

The team built up a detailed picture of the Triassic and Jurassic ecosystems ... first large herbivorous dinosaurs - the long-necked sauropods - surprised the researchers. They contained large ...

For the first time, 140-million-year-old dinosaur tracks have been discovered in South Africa’s Western Cape, offering rare ...

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.

Researchers developed a picture of the Triassic and Jurassic ecosystems ... like the long-necked sauropods. In these samples, ...

The Triassic climate was relatively hot and dry ... This meant that dinosaurs evolved independently in different parts of the world, becoming more diverse. Sauropods reached their largest sizes in the ...

Earth’s continents are constantly shifting. About 252 to 199 million years ago, all the continents were actually one huge “supercontinent” surrounded by one enormous ocean. Slowly, this ...