The Triassic is a tale of two histories. One is its natural history, begun after the Great Permian Dying, 252m years ago, when, as happens from time to time, plate tectonics brought Earth’s continents ...

Frogs, salamanders, crocodiles, turtles, and snakes slunk and slithered on and off the Triassic coast, lakes, and rivers. Pterosaurs, a group of flying reptiles, took to the air. On firm ground ...

To understand why turtles are not dinosaurs, we need to look at the broader reptilian family tree. In This Article Dinosaurs were a diverse group of reptiles that appeared during the Triassic ...

Some turtle and tortoise adaptations, such as their hard shells, evolved during the Triassic and Jurassic periods. They survived the mass extinction of dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period.

establishment in mid-latitudes while Northern Laurasia and Southern Gondwana remained dominated by conifers and ferns Life in the Mesozoic In the Triassic, ‘reptiles’ underwent a great adaptive ...

Earth’s continents are constantly shifting. About 252 to 199 million years ago, all the continents were actually one huge “supercontinent” surrounded by one enormous ocean. Slowly, this ...

The Triassic period stands out in Earth’s history as the time when dinosaurs first evolved. It was followed by the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods – at the end of the latter, the dinosaurs ...