3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic ... mollusks, and sea urchins that survived the Permian extinction and were quickly diversifying. The first corals appeared, though ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact ...

The Triassic ... extinction event is not fully understood. Various theories have been proposed, such as an unknown asteroid impact, massive volcanic eruptions in what is now Siberia, the release of ...

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 ...

Looy had told me that the Black Triangle was the best place today to see what the world would have looked like after the Permian extinction ... storing it as ice. Sea level would have dropped ...

This graph plots extinction ... Sea levels were dropping, causing changes to climate and vegetation that would severely affect large herbivores, including many dinosaurs. Changes in sea level ...

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 ...

“If this increase continues at the same rate, we will reach the level of emissions that caused the Permian-Triassic mass extinction in around 2,700 years—a much faster timescale than the ...

Ancient frog relatives survived the aftermath of the largest mass extinction of ... million years of the Triassic, there is evidence that life on land and in the sea moved away from the tropics ...

Dozens of amphibians perished together on an ancient floodplain around 230 million years ago, according to a new study.

Then 252 million years ago came the Permian-Triassic extinction event ... of water nestled in its curve is called the Tethys Sea. The interior of Pangaea would have been an intensely hot and ...