3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time in Earth's history. Something—a bout of violent volcanic eruptions, climate change, or perhaps a fatal run ...

The Permian-Triassic extinction event, also known as the Great Dying, took place roughly 252 million years ago and was one of the most significant events in the history of our planet. It represents ...

The Triassic period, spanning 252 to 201 million years ago, was crucial for the evolution of terrestrial tetrapods, including early dinosaurs, mammalian ancestors, and crocodile relatives.

This was many millions of years before the first modern humans, Homo sapiens, appeared. Scientists divide the Mesozoic Era into three periods: the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. During this era, ...

We knew that this coastline contained Mesozoic sedimentary rocks ... all the southern African dinosaur tracks known until now are from the Triassic and Jurassic periods, so they pre-date these ...

Dinosaurs have captured people’s imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by ...

Cretaceous - appearance of angiosperms, establishment in mid-latitudes while Northern Laurasia and Southern Gondwana remained dominated by conifers and ferns Life in the Mesozoic In the Triassic, ...

For many, it is dinosaurs, the fierce and powerful stars of the Mesozoic era ... about 225 to 200 million years ago during the late Triassic period. This was about the same time that the earliest ...

So, after millions of years, the forest ecosystems of the Mesozoic came to look like those ... polar floral trends show a staggered Early Triassic gymnosperm recovery following the end-Permian ...