Earlier failed attempts at the split formed rift valleys in North America and Africa filled with red sediments that today contain the best preserved fossils of Triassic life. The oceans teemed ...

The Triassic Period was a time of great change. Bookended by extinctions, this era saw huge shifts in the diversity and dominance of life on Earth, ushering in the appearance of many well-known groups ...

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 ...

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 new study deciphered the single-most greatest mass extinction on Earth driven by a natural calamity that still exists.

Capturing fossil life from the eastern Panthalassan Ocean of the Triassic, the locality that includes the Favret Formation is known for fossils of sea-going creatures like ammonites along with ...

This is a well-written important paper on the recovery of fauna and flora following the end-Permian extinction event in several continental sites in northern China. The convincing conclusion, a rapid ...

I write about the world of biology. Life on Earth began over four billion years ago, not long after the Earth was formed. It wasn’t until the late Triassic period (approximately 225 million ...

but actually a period of intense pressure that many forms of life had not evolved to cope with. Crocodile relatives, like the predatory Saurosuchus, were hit hard by the Triassic-Jurassic extinction.

wrote The Rise of Reptiles (2019), co-authored Triassic Life on Land (2010), and edited or co-edited several volumes and special issues on vertebrate paleontology and paleoecology. When a European ...