Earlier failed attempts at the split formed rift valleys in North America and Africa filled with red sediments that today contain the best preserved fossils of Triassic life. The oceans teemed ...

Fossils on the site, including the area slated for the substation, date back roughly 200 million years to the beginning of ...

What they found is remarkable: North America’s oldest-known dinosaur ... which he said is “one of the most understudied late ...

That distinction belongs to the Permian-Triassic extinction or the Great ... South Africa and Australia in the south, as well as North America, Europe and Russia in the north,” study co-author ...

A fossil fish found in paper-thin rocks laid down by the Sundance Sea, which covered parts of North America during the Jurassic Period. The end of the Triassic Period, 201.4 million years ago, is ...

Conditions during the Early Triassic were harsh. Repeated volcanic activity triggered ... with fossils appearing in South Africa and Australia in the south, as well as North America, Europe, and ...

The Triassic period, spanning 252 to 201 million years ago, was crucial for the evolution of terrestrial tetrapods, including early dinosaurs, mammalian ancestors, and crocodile relatives.

Earth’s continents are constantly shifting. About 252 to 199 million years ago, all the continents were actually one huge “supercontinent” surrounded by one enormous ocean. Slowly, this ...

The Early Triassic was a time of repeated volcanic ... "Fossils are known from South Africa and Australia in the south, as well as North America, Europe and Russia in the north.

About 200 million years ago, during a period known as the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, Pangaea started to crack. North America separated from Europe; South America from Africa. As they parted ...