Learn about the time period that took place 251 to 199 million ... that today contain the best preserved fossils of Triassic life. The oceans teemed with the coiled-shelled ammonites, mollusks ...

A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...

Ruby Reynolds and her father were on the beach when they discovered Ichthyotitan severnensis - the largest-ever marine ...

About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some ... Local die-offs of marine life can result. But Wignall suspects that the entire ocean may have stagnated ...

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

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 ...

Nobu Tamura/Wikimedia Commons The Triassic Period (252-201 million years ago) began after Earth's worst-ever extinction event devastated life. The Permian-Triassic ... The origin of this successful ...

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 ...