The first few million years of the Triassic is marked by an absence of coals. This is thought to be related to the mass extinction that happened and the time it took for the recovery of plants.' This ...

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

The Triassic period stands out in Earth’s history as ... including armoured ones that ate plants, toothless omnivores that sprinted on their hind legs and apex predators called rauisuchians ...

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 ...

Paleontologists found a group of four-legged Triassic creatures preserved in the same bone bed—but they don’t know what ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

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 ...

3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era ... The bottom rung of the food chain was filled with microscopic plants called phytoplankton; two of the major groups still ...