Since the early 19th century ... ecology and evolution. The Triassic covers the period from 252 to 201 million years ago. 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 ...

New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...

The Triassic period stands out in Earth’s history as the time when dinosaurs first evolved. It was followed by the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods – at the end of the latter, the dinosaurs ...

Plesiosaurus, an early plesiosaur, was about 4.5 metres long with a broad, flat body and a short tail (see graphic). Plesiosaurs appeared in the late Triassic period about 203 million years ago ...