A new, temporary exhibit featuring research on the Triassic and Jurassic periods is available at the Zion Human History ...

“They're actually very well restricted in these climate envelopes, or climate bands.” In the Late Triassic for instance, Pangea experienced inordinately high CO2 levels, reaching up to six times ...

The Triassic Period was a time of great change. 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 ...

There were other differences as well. During the Triassic, there was just one continent, called “Pangea,” and the climate started warmer and ice-free, with CO 2 levels much higher than those ...

But the existence of Pangaea overlapped with the worst mass extinction in history, the Permian-Triassic (P-TR) extinction event. Also called the Great Dying, it occurred around 252 million years ...

Dinosaurs began roaming the Earth during the Triassic period 230 million years ago, according to the United States Geological Survey. Dinosaurs lived all over Pangea, the original massive landform ...

Heavy rains in southern Brazil revealed the remains of a carnivorous dinosaur belonging to the Herrerasauridae family, which roamed Pangea during the Triassic 233 million years ago. This would ...

The Permian-Triassic mass extinction ... saber-toothed creature called Inostrancevia migrated 7,000 miles across Pangea. When it arrived in the southern part of Pangea, Inostrancevia filled ...

The Triassic Period ended with a bang beginning around 202 million years ago, as the supercontinent Pangea began to break apart. Massive volcanic eruptions burst forth as the crust split ...