But back in the Triassic, there were scores of them, including armoured ones that ate plants, toothless omnivores that sprinted on their hind legs and apex predators called rauisuchians that were ...

The first few million years of the Triassic is marked by an absence of coals. This is thought to be related to the mass extinction that happened and the time it took for the recovery of plants.' This ...

The discovery of nearly 20 alligator-size amphibians that died together during the Triassic in what is now Wyoming is providing scientists important clues about these creatures' lives.

but it did not have ice caps and flowering plants. 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 ...

By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's landmasses had ... The bottom rung of the food chain was filled with microscopic plants called phytoplankton; two of the major groups still in the ...

It lived during the Triassic period (252 million to 201 million ... bakeri fossils, the team also found fossilized plants, bivalves and fossilized poop, called coprolites. The amphibian bones ...