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.

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

The Painted Desert isn’t just another Instagram backdrop. Beyond the tourist spots and familiar viewpoints, this 93,500-acre ...

As the Middle Triassic period rolled in, Pangea broke apart ... They flourished on land, ferns, mosses, cycads, and conifers, with some even developing flower-like structures instead of cones.

Earth’s continents are constantly shifting. About 252 to 199 million years ago, all the continents were actually one huge “supercontinent” surrounded by one enormous ocean. Slowly, this ...

The Triassic covers the period from 252 to 201 million years ago. The area of present-day Baden-Württemberg was a central part of the Central European Basin. The extraordinary abundance of ...

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 ...