Dossier
End-Triassic extinction
Coverage of End-Triassic extinction in the Nexus archive.
- A crushed fossil revealed a dinosaur that shouldn’t have existed
A crushed dinosaur skull, forgotten in a drawer, was reconstructed by a Virginia Tech student to reveal a new species of early carnivorous dinosaur with unique features. The fossil suggests some dinosaur groups were wiped out during the end-Triassic extinction, potentially representing one of the last survivors of an ancient lineage.