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

The Permian-Triassic extinction, also known as the Great Dying, was the most devastating event in Earth’s history. 96% of ...

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

Research shows how Earth's climate suddenly warmed 10°C, transforming ecosystems and causing the worst mass extinction in history.

As a period of geologic time, the boundaries of the Triassic are defined on the basis of rocks and the fossil record. It was the German geologist Friedrich August von Alberti who first marked the ...

Researchers used modelling and plant fossils to follow the planet's transition to 10 degrees of warming, which eradicated ...

An ancient mass extinction event left a long-hidden refuge, whose survivors repopulated the Earth much faster than previously ...

The Triassic Period was a time of great change. Bookended by extinctions, this era saw huge shifts in the diversity and dominance of life on Earth, ushering in the appearance of many well-known groups ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch ... "While fossilized spores and pollen of plants from the Early Triassic do not provide strong evidence for a sudden and catastrophic ...

Their studies suggest a harsh environment at the start of the Early Triassic period ... were already stabilising within a relatively short geological time frame. The researchers note that further ...

Their studies suggest a harsh environment at the start of the Early Triassic period ... were already stabilizing within a relatively short geological time frame. The researchers note that further ...

A research team from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart presents a comprehensive overview of Triassic terrestrial tetrapods and their environments in the Central European Basin.