"That's your Permo-Triassic transition zone. Brace yourself, you're about to go through the extinction." The fossils embedded in this road cut suggest that synapsids took a savage hit at the end ...

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 ...

Many scientists think a key culprit was widespread volcanic activity. Global warming triggered by heavy volcanic activity is hypothesized by some scientists to have caused the end-Triassic extinction ...

This is the biggest extinction event our planet has ever seen, in which 70 per cent of species on ... not only marked the end of the Permian period and the start of the Triassic, it was such ...

3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the ... a comet or asteroid—had triggered the extinction of more than 90 percent of Earth's species. But it was also a time of tremendous change ...

the largest mass extinction event in Earth’s history had just taken place. Despite the widespread devastation, life recovered during the Triassic period as new species arose and diversified quickly.

Many scientists think a key culprit was widespread volcanic activity. Global warming triggered by heavy volcanic activity is hypothesized by some scientists to have caused the end-Triassic extinction ...

Before this discovery, evidence of venom use in Upper Triassic reptiles was limited to isolated teeth from another species, ...

While the origin of flowering plants may go back as far as the Triassic Period, we don't see much evidence of them in the fossil record at the start of the Cretaceous. However, by the end of the ...

This was the birth of the North Atlantic Ocean. At the end of the Triassic Period there was a mass extinction, the causes of which are still hotly debated. Many large land animals were wiped out but ...