Something—a bout of violent volcanic eruptions, climate change ... By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's landmasses had coalesced to form Pangaea, a supercontinent shaped like a giant ...

There was only one giant landmass: Pangea. 'One might think that because you ... had already reached over nine metres in length. The Triassic ended much as it began. The climate started to change so ...

Research shows how Earth's climate suddenly warmed 10°C, transforming ecosystems and causing the worst mass extinction in history.

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

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass ...

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

The associated changes in the climate and vegetation affected how dinosaurs evolved. All continents during the Triassic Period were part of a single land mass called Pangaea. This meant that ...

Around 201 million years ago, incredible volcanic outpourings in the supercontinent Pangaea shook up life ... getting bigger by the end of the Triassic. Climate changes during the period ...

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 confined ...

About 200 million years ago, during a period known as the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, Pangaea started to crack ... As you might expect, this change in global climate killed off a huge number ...