The second extinction event of the Mesozoic Era is the end-Triassic extinction or the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event. Again, the exact cause is not certain but it was likely triggered by ...

Dinosaurs finally met their end, but only partially ... and the ability to defend themselves by kicking. The Triassic-Jurassic Extinction Event: How Dinosaurs Took Over Roughly 201 million years ago, ...

The Permian-Triassic extinction event, also known as the Great Dying ... but there was an increasingly important archosaurian component,' says Mike. 'By the end of the Middle Triassic, the synapsids ...

You will find this mass extinction event referred to in a few different ways including the end-Triassic mass extinction (ETME) and Triassic-Jurassic (Tr-J) extinction event (TJME). It was a highly ...

Global warming triggered by heavy volcanic activity is hypothesized by some scientists to have caused the end-Triassic extinction event that obliterated up to 80 percent of Earth’s species. These ...

This rapid change of apex predators shows the instability and ecological turmoil of the Permian-Triassic extinction event. Fossils reveal the predator's desperate struggle to survive Earth's worst ...

Once the end-Triassic extinction struck ... By the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, most of the survivors were the semiaquatic generalists and one group of aquatic carnivores.

According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur extinction came quickly, the impact must have spelled the cataclysmic end. For months, scientists conclude, dense clouds of dust blocked the sun ...