The period of time before the Triassic was called the Permian. This was a time when a wide variety of animals lived, including a group of animals called the synapsids, which would later evolve ...

"But it may be the best place to see the terrestrial realm's transition from the Permian to the Triassic period." We ascended through sheep-ranching country toward the Lootsberg Pass. The rocks ...

After studying sediments from South China, they concluded that Methanosarcina began to thrive towards the end of the Permian period ... “During the Permian-Triassic crisis, El Niño persisted ...

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 ...

After the great mass extinction at the Permian-Triassic boundary 252 million ... both land and in the water at the beginning of the Triassic period. These included the first long-necked marine ...

Dinosaurs evolved from more primitive reptiles in the aftermath of Earth's biggest mass-extinction event caused by extreme volcanism at the end of the Permian Period about 252 million years ago.

3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era ... and sea urchins that survived the Permian extinction and were quickly diversifying. The first corals appeared, though other ...