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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient frog relatives survived the aftermath of the largest mass extinction of species by feeding on freshwater prey that evaded terrestrial predators, academics have found.

Witton ( The end-Permian mass extinction, 252 million years ago, was the largest, wiping out up to 90% of species.

Research suggests that tropical riparian ecosystems – those found along rivers and wetlands – recovered much faster than expected following the end-Permian mass extinction around 252 million years ago ...

"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 ...

This ‘tropical dead zone’ drastically impacted the distributions of both marine and terrestrial ... five million years of the Triassic, there is evidence that life on land and in the sea ...