A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 million years ago. This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

On land, there was significant turnover as terrestrial life also took a massive hit. All Triassic archosaurs, apart from dinosaurs, pterosaurs and crocodiles, went extinct. This opened up many of the ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact ...

Then 252 million years ago came the Permian-Triassic extinction event. This is the biggest extinction event our planet has ever seen, in which 70 per cent of species on land disappeared along with ...

Life in the Triassic period had a rough start ... the mammals that could have been competitors for these reptiles on land and in water. One example of these mammals would be the Dimetrodon ...

"Recovery in marine life after the end-Permian extinction ... whether similar recoveries occurred in other land regions during the Early Triassic. Further evidence would help us to understand ...

as we drove across the treeless land. "But it may be the best place to see the terrestrial realm's transition from the Permian to the Triassic period." We ascended through sheep-ranching country ...

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass extinctions 252 million years ago, not only the dinosaurs but also many other ...

Earlier failed attempts at the split formed rift valleys in North America and Africa filled with red sediments that today contain the best preserved fossils of Triassic life. The oceans teemed ...