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 ...

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 ...

The associated changes in the climate and vegetation affected how dinosaurs evolved. All continents during the Triassic Period were part of a single land mass called Pangaea. This meant that ...

That make them able to identify a plant from the Late Triassic period. “Looking within old collections with novel methods and ...

Decades of acid rain generated by power-plant emissions have devastated ... realm's transition from the Permian to the Triassic period." We ascended through sheep-ranching country toward the ...

Researchers found undigested remains of food, plants and prey ... of dinosaur evolution during the first part of the Late Triassic period. “The research material was collected over 25 years.

They found a pattern with the same characteristics on a fossil unearthed in Utah from a stratum dating back to the early Triassic Period (250 million years ago). Sea lilies are sometimes called ...