The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...

Research shows how Earth's climate suddenly warmed 10°C, transforming ecosystems and causing the worst mass extinction in history.

Can plants uncover the survival secrets of Earth’s darkest days? A research team from (UCC), the University of Connecticut, ...

Namely, a group of primitive amphibians called the temnospondyls. They may have survived the Great Dying by feeding on some ...

Learn why the temnospondyls’ inability to evolve eventually did them in when mammals and dinosaurs appeared on the scene.

Researchers used modelling and plant fossils to follow the planet's transition to 10 degrees of warming, which eradicated ...

We need more fossil data to clarify this. The later Triassic, however, was much hotter. The following periods—the Olenekian and Anisian—stabilized at temperatures 10 degrees higher than ...