After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

The giant ocean called Panthalassa surrounded Pangaea ... sediments that today contain the best preserved fossils of Triassic life. The oceans teemed with the coiled-shelled ammonites, mollusks ...

Two Paleontology and Evolution students from the University of Bristol have undertaken the first ever study which describes ...

A selection of tiny shark's teeth, measuring from 1 to 5 mm wide, and representing several characteristic speciesImage by ...

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.

Life in the Triassic period had a rough start ... Dinosaur embryo found curled up and ready to hatch like a bird In the Triassic ocean, marine reptiles such as the plesiosaurs were kings.

"That's your Permo-Triassic transition zone ... spilling into shallow water as sea levels rose and smothering marine life. Permian oceans also might have been poisoned with CO2, according to ...

The sea levels began to rise and the oceans became more ... On land, there was significant turnover as terrestrial life also took a massive hit. All Triassic archosaurs, apart from dinosaurs, ...

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass extinctions 252 million years ago, not only the dinosaurs but also many other ...

the dinosaurs were wiped out in a mass extinction event along with the majority of all other life. As a period of geologic time, the boundaries of the Triassic are defined on the basis of rocks ...