Fossils reveal rapid land recovery after end-Permian extinction around 252 million years ago
Tropical riparian ecosystems—those found along rivers and wetlands—recovered much faster than expected following the ...
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Fossils reveal rapid land recovery after end-Permian extinction
Fossil evidence from North China suggests that some ecosystems may have recovered within just two million years of the ...
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The Bones Of A 230-Million-Year-Old ‘Edward Scissorhands’ Reptile Were Just Discovered On A Brazilian Farm
A rice farm in southern Brazil was just found to be home to the fossil of one of the missing links between the ground-based lagerpetids and pterosaurs. With a raptor-like beak, huge hands, and long, ...
Smithsonian Magazine28d
How a Mass Extinction Driven by Ancient Volcanoes Led to the Age of the Dinosaurs
Paleontologists have known something strange happened between the end of the Triassic Period and the beginning of the Jurassic for the better part of a century. In the latest days of the Triassic ...
Where did dinosaurs first evolve? Scientists have an answer
Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus, meat-eating brutes like Tyrannosaurus and weirdos like Therizinosaurus, ...
The Independent22d
‘Truly unusual’ fossil discovery shows us what fish ate 66 million years ago
A study of fossilised faeces and vomit found in Poland last year revealed how early dinosaurs in the Triassic era, 252 to 201 million years ago, competed for food. By examining the fossils for ...
scmp.com26d
Where did the first dinosaurs evolve? Scientists may have found the location
the evolutionary relationships among these early forms and Earth’s geography during the Triassic Period. This locale spans the modern-day Sahara desert and Amazon rainforest regions, now ...
The Globe and Mail27d
Where did dinosaurs first evolve? Scientists are proposing a surprising location
the evolutionary relationships among these early forms and Earth’s geography during the Triassic Period. This locale spans the modern-day Sahara desert and Amazon rain forest regions ...
AOL27d
Where did dinosaurs first evolve? Scientists have an answer
the evolutionary relationships among these early forms and Earth's geography during the Triassic Period. This locale spans the modern-day Sahara desert and Amazon rainforest regions, now separated ...