A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...

About 250 million years ago during the Early Triassic, nearly constant volcanic ... of both marine and terrestrial organisms throughout Earth. Some organisms, including sharks, horseshoe crabs ...

Bookended by extinctions, this era saw huge shifts in the diversity and dominance of life on Earth, ushering in the appearance of many well-known groups of animals that would go on to rule the planet ...

Since the early 19th century ... Research shows that the Triassic was an important period in Earth's history, laying the ...

followed by the early Triassic Induan and Olenekian, and the middle Triassic Anisian. They mapped Earth’s ancient geography and matched plant fossils to six major biomes, including tropical ...

Two Paleontology and Evolution students from the University of Bristol have undertaken the first ever study which describes ...

How could these water-loving animals have been so successful?" The Early Triassic was a time of repeated volcanic activity leading to long phases of global warming, aridification, reductions in ...

the early Triassic Induan and Olenekian, and the middle Triassic Anisian. They combined a map of Earth's geography at that time with plant fossil data, assigning plant genera to six major biomes ...

The discovery of nearly 20 alligator-size amphibians that died together during the Triassic in what is now Wyoming is ...

Conditions during the Early Triassic were harsh. Repeated volcanic activity triggered ... Despite the intense heart, the temnospondyls were able to expand throughout the Earth, with fossils appearing ...

A region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium - or “life oasis”- for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction.