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 ...

Namely, a group of primitive amphibians called the temnospondyls. They may have survived the Great Dying by feeding on some ...

Ancient frog relatives survived the aftermath of the largest mass extinction of species by feeding on freshwater prey that ...

Fossil evidence from North China indicates that certain ecosystems may have rebounded within just two million years after the end-Permian mass extinction, significantly earlier than previously ...

"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 ...

Capturing fossil life from the eastern Panthalassan Ocean of the Triassic, the locality that ... sea-going creatures like ammonites along with marine reptiles like the giant ichthyosaur C.

They point out that Triassic marine deposits spread extensively across the Lhasa and South Qiangtang blocks as well as the Bangongco-Nujiang Suture Zone (BNSZ). This observation leads to an ...

"Recovery in marine life after the end-Permian extinction has ... fossils preserved in sedimentary rocks spanning the Early Triassic, which followed the end-Permian extinction around 252–247 ...