The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass extinctions 252 million years ago, not only the dinosaurs but also many other groups ...

A research team from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart presents a comprehensive overview of Triassic terrestrial tetrapods and their environments in the Central European Basin.

New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...

Namely, a group of primitive amphibians called the temnospondyls ... About 250 million years ago during the Early Triassic, nearly constant volcanic activity led to long phases of global warming ...

Broader examination of Triassic ecosystems also indicates that ... has been the survival and flourishing of a major group of amphibians called the temnospondyls,” explained lead author Aamir ...

The study suggests the amphibians' success lay in their generalist feeding ecology, which enabled them to feed on a wide variety of prey despite the array of environmental changes happening all around ...

A key line of research has been to focus on the survivors and their fate in the Triassic, the timespan that followed the Permian. “One of the great mysteries has been the survival and flourishing of a ...