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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dinosaurs first appeared around 230 million years ago, coexisting with large crocodile relatives and massive herbivores.