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

By not melting as completely as the surrounding mantle, the remnants of what had once been a Triassic ocean floor protrude deeper into the hotter mantle layers, causing the material to bulge into ...

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

The Triassic ended much as it began. The climate started to change so that by 201.3 million years ago, Earth experienced another mass extinction event. The causes of this are still not entirely ...

"That's your Permo-Triassic transition zone ... For years scientists have known that the deep ocean lacked oxygen in the late Permian. But most life is concentrated in shallow water, in places ...

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.

Toward the end of the Triassic, a series of earthquakes and massive volcanic eruptions caused Pangaea to slowly begin to break into two. This was the birth of the North Atlantic Ocean. Coelophysis ...

The end-Permian mass extinction occurred around 252 million years ago, and wiped out over 80% of marine species and 70% of terrestrial species due to extreme environmental changes including global ...

The Triassic period stands out in Earth’s history ... Around the back of the “C” was a vast ocean called Panthalassa and the expanse of water nestled in its curve is called the Tethys ...

A research team from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart presents a comprehensive overview of Triassic terrestrial tetrapods and their environments in the Central European Basin.