The period of time before the Triassic was called the Permian. This was a time when a wide variety of animals lived, including a group of animals called the synapsids, which would later evolve ...

"But it may be the best place to see the terrestrial realm's transition from the Permian to the Triassic period." We ascended through sheep-ranching country toward the Lootsberg Pass. The rocks ...

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 extinction event, also known as the ...

A newly published review of 252-million-year-old fossils from southwest Germany is offering a deeper understanding of life’s ...

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

These occurred at the end of the Ordivician, the Late Devonian, the Permian/Triassic (P/Tr ... extinctions were at the end of the Permian Period, about 250 million years ago, and at the end ...

Life in the Triassic period had a rough start. In the Permian period before, the largest mass extinction event in Earth’s history had just taken place. Despite the widespread devastation ...

The end-Permian mass extinction ... extinction rate during the same period. This conclusion was based on the discovery of ...

The Museum of Texas Tech houses fossils from the Triassic, Ice Age. Here's a behind the scenes look into the paleontology ...

3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era ... and sea urchins that survived the Permian extinction and were quickly diversifying. The first corals appeared, though other ...