Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared. Known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction – or the Great Dying – this was the most catastrophic of the five mass ...

Triassic Reptiles Traveled a 10,000-Mile-Long Dead Zone, Leading to Dinosaur Evolution Learn more about archosauromorphs, the early relatives of dinosaurs, that survived inhospitable terrain during ...

Triassic reptiles took 10,000 mile trips through 'hellish' conditions, study suggests by University of Birmingham edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

Permian-Triassic extinction: the Great Dying The cause of the Permian-Triassic extinction event is not fully understood. Various theories have been proposed, such as an unknown asteroid impact, ...

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass ...

But by the end of the Triassic, around 200 million years ago, things had changed quite a bit. Dinosaurs became the dominant species, and other animals took a back seat.

The End Triassic Extinction, which occurred about 201.6 million years ago, stamped out three-quarters of all life on Earth, and has long been thought to be linked to the volcanic eruption of the ...

This particle Triassic period predator lived millions of years ago. However, its fossil could be a new door of understanding we haven’t previously been able to achieve.

Dinocephalosaurus orientalis's snake-like body was 16 feet long and lived in Triassic China. The newly revealed specimen allows scientists to depict the creature in full for the first time.

The animal is a 5-meter-long aquatic reptile from the Triassic period of China. LONDON -- Scientists in Scotland have revealed a remarkable discovery of a "very strange" 240 million-year-old ...

In Search of Triassic Worlds Kaltenegger and Payne used climate models and geological evidence to figure out how much oxygen and other gases Earth’s atmosphere would have contained at important ...