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 first few million years of the Triassic is marked by an absence of coals. This is thought to be related to the mass extinction that happened and the time it took for the recovery of plants.' This ...

Tropical riparian ecosystems—those found along rivers and wetlands—recovered much faster than expected following the ...

Fossil evidence from North China suggests that some ecosystems may have recovered within just two million years of the ...

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

All continents during the Triassic Period were part of a single land mass called Pangaea. This meant that differences between animals or plants found in different areas were minor. The Triassic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paleontologists have known something strange happened between the end of the Triassic Period and the beginning ... food to begin specializing on eating plants. The early ancestors of long-necked ...

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 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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants ... Earth's geography during the Triassic Period.