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 ...

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 ...

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 150 million years. Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans ...

"When a tree dies, it falls. As it decays, fungi grow into it from spores on the ground, decomposing it." Visscher and his colleagues have found elevated levels of fungal remains in Permo-Triassic ...

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 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 ...

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 ...