By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's landmasses had ... The bottom rung of the food chain was filled with microscopic plants called phytoplankton; two of the major groups still in the ...

That make them able to identify a plant from the Late Triassic period. “Looking within old collections with novel methods and ...

Plants were also hit by the extinction ... where exposed fossil beds cover the transition from the Permian to the Triassic. The beds lie high on a cliff, accessible only by climbing piles of ...

All continents during the Triassic Period were part of a single land mass called Pangaea. This meant that differences between animals or plants found in different areas were minor. The Triassic ...

but it did not have ice caps and flowering plants. 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 ...

The Triassic-Jurassic extinction was not as rapid ... lineages with enough green food to begin specializing on eating plants. The early ancestors of long-necked giants like Apatosaurus began ...

But back in the Triassic, there were scores of them, including armoured ones that ate plants, toothless omnivores that sprinted on their hind legs and apex predators called rauisuchians that were ...