Study suggests dinosaurs originated in the Amazon, but their fossils are missing. They started as small, bipedal creatures in ...

But a different mass extinction was responsible for the success of ... Among the most significant mysteries of the end-Triassic extinction, however, is why dinosaurs and pterosaurs fared so much ...

"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 ...

The five peaks show the "Big Five" mass extinction events ... the Late Devonian, the Permian/Triassic (P/Tr) boundary, the end of the Triassic, and the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) boundary.

driven by volcanic activity from the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP), created a two-pronged kill mechanism that contributed to the end-Triassic mass extinction. This mechanism involved ...

The four previous mass extinctions were also thought to have involved ... by heavy volcanic activity is hypothesized by some scientists to have caused the end-Triassic extinction event that ...

The Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction event may have wiped out some 85 ... by heavy volcanic activity is hypothesized by some scientists to have caused the end-Triassic extinction event that ...

The Triassic period stands out ... the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods – at the end of the latter, the dinosaurs were wiped out in a mass extinction event along with the majority of all other ...

Here are four animals that managed to persist through Earth’s mass extinction events. Additionally, horseshoe crabs have a reproductive strategy that includes spawning in large numbers ...

Life in the Triassic period had a rough start. In the Permian period before, the largest mass extinction event in Earth’s history had just taken place. Despite the widespread devastation ...