The Late Triassic seas, 200 million years ago around Bristol and in South Wales were full of life. These seas lapped on the shores ... ichthyosaurs, and other marine reptiles. But in the neptunian ...

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 ...

"That's your Permo-Triassic transition zone ... today in regions that lack good circulation. Local die-offs of marine life can result. But Wignall suspects that the entire ocean may have stagnated ...

Two hundred and fifty one million years ago, the worst mass extinction event Planet Earth has ever seen ruined the life of ...

Ruby Reynolds and her father were on the beach when they discovered Ichthyotitan severnensis - the largest-ever marine ...

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.

the dinosaurs were wiped out in a mass extinction event along with the majority of all other life. As a period of geologic time, the boundaries of the Triassic are defined on the basis of rocks ...