Author: Aimee Cunningham / Source: Science News A 240-million-year-old case of bone cancer has turned up in a fossil of an extinct ancestor of turtles. Dating to the Triassic Period, the fossil is the oldest known example of this cancer in an amniote, a group that includes mammals, birds and

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama This is Lisowicia bojani, a newly-discovered dicynodont that lived 237 million years ago, in the Triassic period, when dinosaurs first rose to dominance. But it’s not a dinosaur, or even a reptile. It’s an early relative of mammals. The popular notion of

Author: Vittoria Traverso / Source: Atlas Obscura A team of paleontologists led by Robert Gay, of the University of Western Colorado, has recently discovered what may be the largest concentration of Triassic fossils in the world. The newly found site is located in part of the Chinle Formation of

The fossil, named Cartorhynchus lenticarpus, represents a missing stage in the evolution of ichthyosaurs. Until now, there were no fossils marking their transition from land to sea. “But now we have this fossil showing the transition. There’s nothing that prevents it from coming onto land,” said