Another period of extreme volcanic activity 201 million years ago marked the end-Triassic mass extinction. It has been linked to the breakup of the Pangea supercontinent and the opening of the ...

The research team and the mountainside exposures of the sedimentary rocks that preserve end-Triassic mass extinction in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. Photo credit: Martin Aberhan (Museum für ...

The end-Triassic mass extinction event 201 million years ago wiped out around 76 percent of all terrestrial and marine species on Earth.

Scientists say rocks on the English coast contain clues of the processes that drove the end-Triassic event that killed as much as a quarter of all life on Earth. By Lucas Joel Some 200 million ...

More than deepening our understanding of the end-Triassic mass extinction, their findings offer critical lessons for today's environmental challenges. About 200 million years ago, Earth ...

At the end of the day, though, Olsen defends this event as a legitimate mass extinction. If you look over thousands of feet of rock strata above and below it, encompassing tens of millions of years on ...

The most famous of these mass extinction events — when an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, dooming the dinosaurs and many other species — is also the most recent.

When dinosaurs got big. Another period of extreme volcanic activity 201 million years ago marked the end-Triassic mass extinction. It has been linked to the breakup of the Pangea supercontinent ...

(CNN) — No species lasts forever — extinction is part of the evolution of life. But at least five times, a biological catastrophe has engulfed the planet, killing off the vast majority of ...

(CNN) — No species lasts forever — extinction is part of the evolution of life. But at least five times, a biological catastrophe has engulfed the planet, killing off the vast majority of ...