3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era ... ginkgoes, and palm-like cycads. Spiders, scorpions, millipedes, and centipedes thrived. Grasshoppers appeared.

At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the supercontinent Pangaea as rodents scurried at their feet through forests of ferns, cycads, and conifers. At the end of the ...

While the origin of flowering plants may go back as far as the Triassic Period, we don't see much evidence of them ... Of the around 370 species of cycads alive today, almost all of them are toxic to ...

New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...