It forms the transition between the late Palaeozoic Era, which was mainly populated by synapsids, or mammal-like reptiles, and the Mesozoic Era, when the archosaurian reptiles, which includes the ...

Around 220 million years ago, shifting climate conditions created an environment that allowed pterosaurs to evolve and take ...

During the late Triassic, the Earth became so hot that few plants or animals could survive in equatorial and tropical regions. Even so, the period was not universally hot. “Volcanic winters” followed ...

A late Triassic-era rausuchian, ... ponderous plant-eaters, even four-legged runners with fierce, tyrannosaur-like heads. But then, as the Triassic period was coming to a close, something happened.

“I like to imagine them scampering around the sinkholes and fissures of southwest England in the Late Triassic, looking for plants and bugs to eat while avoiding the early ... Researchers have noticed ...

However, the supercontinent began to rift and splinter in the late Triassic about 230 million years ago. As the Americas pulled away from Africa and Eurasia, magma erupted at the margins. The episode, ...