Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

During this time, all continents were one, also known as Pangea. The Triassic spanned 50.5 million years and followed the Permian extinction, also known as The Great Dying. This is when 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 ...

About 200 million years ago, during a period known as the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, Pangaea started to crack. North America separated from Europe; South America from Africa. As they parted ...

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

The Triassic period, spanning 252 to 201 million years ago, was crucial for the evolution of terrestrial tetrapods, including early dinosaurs, mammalian ancestors, and crocodile relatives.

All continents during the Triassic Period were part of a single land mass called Pangaea. This meant that differences between animals or plants found in different areas were minor. The Triassic ...

Caption The supercontinent of Pangaea 202 million years ago, shortly before the Triassic-Jurassic Extinction. Evidence of early dinosaurs has been found in the indicated areas; most species were ...

By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's landmasses had coalesced to form Pangaea, a supercontinent shaped like a giant C that straddled the Equator and extended toward the Poles. Almost as ...