Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most people think a meteor killed the dinosaurs - but that wasn’t Earth’s biggest extinction. The Permian-Triassic extinction ...

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 ...

The oldest is the Paleozoic Era, which means ‘ancient life’ and occurred ... Things were no better on land where numerous groups went extinct. All of the Triassic archosaurs (the ruling ...

It was a time of significant changes for life on Earth, including the extinction of ... called Pangaea that had already ...

237-million-year-old predator's fossil reveals land and water hunting abilities ... This revelation reveals the complexity of life in early Triassic and how species existed and coevolved.

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 ...