He says, 'The Triassic is an interesting period. It forms the transition between the late Palaeozoic Era, which was mainly populated by synapsids, or mammal-like reptiles, and the Mesozoic Era, when ...

Read about the Jurassic extinction event that wiped out many species at the beginning of this Period and led to the rise of ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

Non-bird dinosaurs lived between about 245 and 66 million years ago, in a time known as the Mesozoic Era. This was many millions of years before the first modern humans, Homo sapiens, appeared.

The Triassic period stands out in Earth’s history as the time when dinosaurs first evolved ... is used as the marker of the end of a geologic era, the palaeozoic era. Out of the ashes of ...

3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time in ... including rodent-size mammals and the first dinosaurs. By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's ...

The rise of the dinosaurs began in the Triassic. There were already predecessors of modern mammals, and predatory crocodile ...

The park, located in northeastern Arizona, is famous for its late-Triassic-era fossils of trees, plants, reptiles and dinosaurs. John Burcham He and his colleagues found 16 of the animal’s ...

Despite the widespread devastation, life recovered during the Triassic period as new species arose and diversified quickly. This also marked the first time the earliest dinosaurs appeared.

For many, it is dinosaurs, the fierce and powerful stars of the Mesozoic era, which spanned from about ... to 200 million years ago during the late Triassic period. This was about the same time ...