Pterosaurs, which dominated the skies of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, first evolved to take to the air in ...

Did volcanic winters play a decisive role in the Triassic-Jurassic extinction ... warming induced by the intense volcanism of the period. However, a recent study published in PNAS points to ...

occurring at the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods, and setting the stage for the rise of dinosaurs, which dominated the Jurassic period afterward. The CAMP eruptions—which ...

Paleontologists have known something strange happened between the end of the Triassic Period and the beginning of the Jurassic for the better part of a century. In the latest days of the Triassic ...

It marked the end of the Triassic period and the beginning of the Jurassic, the period when dinosaurs arose to take the place of Triassic creatures and dominate the planet. The exact mechanisms of ...

At the end of the Triassic, another mass extinction occurred. This time, 80% of the Earth's species died off. This left the surviving dinosaurs to adapt and evolve during the Jurassic Period.

were keen to test two competing hypotheses about the dinosaurs' rise to dominance from the Late Triassic Period (237 million to 201 million years ago) to the onset of the Jurassic Period between ...

And the period (as it is now known ... examining had become sturdier over the course of the Mesozoic era (the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods), in response, presumably, to shell-crushing ...

Pterosaurs which dominated the skies of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods first evolved to take to the air in ...