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“The end-Triassic mass extinction is global—it’s everywhere,” said Wignall. “So you've got to harm things everywhere.” Only climate change can threaten the very fundamental aspects of ...
The End Triassic Extinction marks one of the five major mass extinction events in Earth's history, occurring at the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods, and setting the stage for ...
A single deposit has produced a wealth of fossils revealing the late Triassic ecosystem, where giant amphibians cohabited ...
Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...
The team named the new pterosaur species Eotephradactylus mcintireae. The generic name means ‘ash-winged dawn goddess’ and references the site’s volcanic ash and the animals’ position near the base of ...
You will find this mass extinction event referred to in a few different ways including the end-Triassic mass extinction (ETME) and Triassic-Jurassic (Tr-J) extinction event (TJME).
A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...
An ancient climate tipping point is revealed in new fossils dating back to Earth’s most severe extinction event, called the ...
Crocodylomorphs survived both the end-Triassic mass extinction (roughly 201.4 million years ago) and the end-Cretaceous mass extinction (about 66 million years ago), which killed all non-avian ...
Fossils from Earth’s biggest extinction reveal forest collapse triggered runaway warming - offering a warning for today’s ...
The End Triassic Extinction marks one of the five major mass extinction events in Earth's history, occurring at the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods, and setting the stage for ...