After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

Two Paleontology and Evolution students from the University of Bristol have undertaken the first ever study which describes ...

Earlier failed attempts at the split formed rift valleys in North America and Africa filled with red sediments that today contain the best preserved fossils of Triassic life. The oceans teemed ...

A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...

The Permian-Triassic extinction, also known as the Great Dying, was the most devastating event in Earth’s history. 96% of marine life and 70% of terrestrial vertebrates vanished around 252 ...

The origin of this successful group of marine reptiles is still not resolved ... On land, there was significant turnover as terrestrial life also took a massive hit. All Triassic archosaurs, apart ...

Life in the Triassic period had a rough start ... Dinosaur embryo found curled up and ready to hatch like a bird In the Triassic ocean, marine reptiles such as the plesiosaurs were kings.

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