“The end-Triassic mass extinction is global—it’s everywhere,” said Wignall. “So you've got to harm things everywhere.” Only climate change can threaten the very fundamental aspects of ...

The mass extinction just before the dinosaurs took over may have been caused by extreme cold rather than extreme warmth like originally thought. ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS The End Triassic ...

(Find out more about the devastation of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction.) As temperatures rose, rocks on land weathered more rapidly, hastened by acid rain that formed from volcanic sulfur.

You will find this mass extinction event referred to in a few different ways including the end-Triassic mass extinction (ETME) and Triassic-Jurassic (Tr-J) extinction event (TJME). It was a highly ...

And while every mass extinction has winners and losers ... blooded in some way because we track feathers back to the early Triassic dinosaurs and their nearest relatives, and on the mammals ...

“But how [such winters] fit into the picture of the end-Triassic mass extinction has been very unclear.” In the new study, Olsen and his colleagues present the first physical evidence that not ...

Did volcanic winters play a decisive role in the Triassic-Jurassic extinction ... Around 201 million years ago, Earth experienced a mass extinction. Nearly 76% of species disappeared.

End-Triassic Fossils From the Ocean A day's drive from Los ... it looked like what had come before. “It was a mass extinction that happened to the modern fauna,” Bottjer says. “The organisms that ...

there was a devastating mass extinction, when nearly all of life died out, and this was followed by one of the most extraordinary times in the history of life. The Triassic period, from 252–201 ...

When dinosaurs got big Another period of extreme volcanic activity 201 million years ago marked the end-Triassic mass extinction. It has been linked to the breakup of the Pangea supercontinent and ...