The extraordinary abundance of fossils and the extensive outcrops of Triassic rocks of this region make it easy to reconstruct the ecosystems of that time. "The Triassic is an important window ...

"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 ...

In fact though, the Jurassic Coast is a confusing name, because along its 95 mile length, there are also younger, Cretaceous and older, Triassic rocks to be seen. The Cretaceous rocks are at the ...

Learn about the time period that took place 251 to 199 million years ago. 3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time in Earth's history. Something—a ...

These occurred at the end of the Ordivician, the Late Devonian, the Permian/Triassic (P/Tr ... in 1980 when a layer of iridium was found in rocks laid down at the Cretaceous/Tertiary, or K ...

Working alongside paleobiologists Michelle Stocker and Sterling Nesbitt with junior microbiology major Maranda Stricklin, Stack drew this conclusion by analyzing a fossilized Triassic-era fish ...

It’s where naturalist Alexander von Humboldt first noticed that Jurassic rocks were distinct from those of the Triassic Period that came before it. We can divide the Jurassic Period into three key ...

The discovery helps piece together two parts of the geological jigsaw puzzle that paleontologists need to assemble in order to reconstruct the history of life in the Triassic. “Not every place in the ...

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 ...