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 ...

Around 201 million years ago, incredible volcanic outpourings in the supercontinent Pangaea shook up life on Earth and gave early dinosaurs a chance to thrive. Paleontologists have known something ...

But most life is concentrated in shallow water ... Renne secured chunks of lava from the Siberian Traps and Permo-Triassic boundary rocks from China. He has determined the two events occurred ...

Life in the Triassic period had a rough start. In the Permian period before, the largest mass extinction event in Earth’s history had just taken place. Despite the widespread devastation ...

I write about the world of biology. Life on Earth began over four billion years ago, not long after the Earth was formed. It wasn’t until the late Triassic period (approximately 225 million ...

During the Late Triassic period, all of Earth’s land was ... it wasn’t all bad all the time. For life on Earth, it was both a major challenge and an opportunity they never saw coming.

The event transports families through165 million years of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods to roam among true-to ...

wrote The Rise of Reptiles (2019), co-authored Triassic Life on Land (2010), and edited or co-edited several volumes and special issues on vertebrate paleontology and paleoecology. When a European ...

the dinosaurs were wiped out in a mass extinction event along with the majority of all other life. As a period of geologic time, the boundaries of the Triassic are defined on the basis of rocks ...

but actually a period of intense pressure that many forms of life had not evolved to cope with. Crocodile relatives, like the predatory Saurosuchus, were hit hard by the Triassic-Jurassic extinction.