The Triassic Period was a time of great change ... when the archosaurian reptiles, which includes the dinosaurs, came to dominate.' The cause of the Permian-Triassic extinction event is not fully ...

A fossil from British Columbia, originally discovered in the 80s, has finally been identified as a new species named ...

This period of time was when dinosaurs first evolved ... The climate was hot and dinosaurs flourished after the Permian, or Permian-Triassic, extinction (also known as the "Great Dying ...

Dinosaurs evolved from a group of reptiles called archosaurs (“ruling reptiles”) around 240–250 million years ago. This was during the Triassic period. This branch of the tree of life gave ...

But we’ve been so focused on how the Age of Dinosaurs ... The Triassic saw different families of reptiles thrive. A mass extinction at the beginning of the period, caused by massive volcanic ...

While Steven Spielberg’s revolutionary film, Jurassic Park, features numerous dinosaur species, it notably excludes aquatic ...

The Permian period immediately predated the dinosaurs. Ronchi said he was also “surprised by the abundance and preservation” of the fossils when he first saw the images. “It is the first ...

"Mammals and dinosaurs have the same origin story - they both originated and began to diversify back in the Triassic Period, around 230 million years ago, on the supercontinent of Pangea ...

When dinosaurs first got their start during the middle Triassic Period, maybe as early as 245 million years ago, North America was connected to the other continents as part of Pangaea.

The United States' national parks, especially those in the American West, are famous for their amazing dinosaur discoveries. The aptly-named Dinosaur National Monument, which overlaps Utah and ...

Dinosaurs evolved from more primitive reptiles in the aftermath of Earth's biggest mass-extinction event caused by extreme volcanism at the end of the Permian Period about 252 million years ago.

but not so much the rise of the dinosaurs," Qvarnström says. Sponsor Message At the beginning of the Triassic period, dinosaurs were one of many lizards roaming the Earth. "Most of the animals in ...