3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era ... all the Earth's landmasses had coalesced to form Pangaea, a supercontinent shaped like a giant C that straddled the Equator ...

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 ...

Everyone knows about the mass extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs. About 66 million years ago, a seven-mile-wide asteroid slammed into our planet and began a mass extinction that wiped out all ...

Slowly, this giant continent, called Pangaea, broke apart and spread to form the continents we know today. The Triassic period was a unique episode in Earth’s ecological history, and it began on ...

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 ...

Paleontologists say that the carnivorous dinosaur belongs to the Herrerasauridae family and walked on Earth during the Triassic Period ... also known as Pangea. The Triassic spanned 50.5 million ...

The end of the Triassic Period, 201.4 million years ago, is marked by one of our planet’s top five ... The fossilisation of this Jurassic forest may be linked to the rifting of Pangea. Scientists ...

A chicken-sized dino, the oldest known in North America, has thrown a wrench in the widely accepted timeline of early dinosaur history.

Dinosaurs likely originated in a locale that spans the modern-day Sahara desert and Amazon rainforest regions, study suggests ...

Researchers are now proposing a surprising location for the birthplace of dinosaurs, based on the locations of the currently ...

Ancient fossils of the world's very first dinosaurs may be buried in places almost impossible to investigate, according to new research from University College London and the UK's Natural History ...