Lizards are ancient creatures. They were around before the dinosaurs and persisted long after dinosaurs went extinct. We’ve ...

A series of extinction events over 200 million years ago may have sealed the fate of many marine reptiles. During the Triassic, between 252-200 million years ago, marine reptiles rapidly diversified ...

The Museum's crocodylomorph and early archosaur collections include an estimated 5,000 specimens ... UK and the USA. Our collection includes Triassic material from South Africa, USA, Germany and ...

Broadly known as pseudosuchian archosaurs—four-legged ... "A growing number of recent discoveries of Middle Triassic ...

Learn about the time period that took place 251 to 199 million years ago. 3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time in Earth's history. Something—a ...

Using hundreds of samples of fossilised faeces, vomit and intestinal contents, alongside bones and footprints, researchers ...

and other archosaurs. These changes also included many early dinosaurs with strong adaptations to cursoriality (running). Mass extinctions are marked along the time scale: PTME, Permian-Triassic ...

Areas of expertise My interests include the diversification of life through time, quality of the fossil record, shapes of phylogenies, age-clade congruence, mass extinctions, Triassic ecosystem ...