News articles tagged with 'Triassic'
New fossil site in China shows long recovery of life from the largest extinction in Earth's history
— 4 Jan 2011 20:26 | Geology and palaeontologyA major new fossil site in south-west China has filled in a sizeable gap in our understanding of how life on this planet recovered from the greatest mass extinction of all time, according…
New skeletons from the age of dinosaurs answer century-old questions
— 21 May 2010 12:57 | Geology and palaeontologyMore than 100 years ago palaeontologist E. D. Cope of 'Dinosaur Wars' fame found a few fragmentary bones of a reptile in the deserts of New Mexico. He named the reptile Typothorax.…
Brown University-led team explains how dinosaurs rose to prominence
— 23 Mar 2010 15:36 | Geology and palaeontologyA shade more than 200 million years ago, the Earth looked far different than it does today. Most land on the planet was consolidated into one continent called Pangea. There was no Atlantic…
Utah palaeontologist part of international team to discover oldest known dinosaur relative
— 18 Mar 2010 12:46 | Geology and palaeontologyUntil now, palaeontologists have generally believed that the closest relatives of dinosaurs possibly looked a little smaller in size, walked on two legs and were carnivorous. However,…
Dinosaurs might be older than previously thought
— 18 Mar 2010 12:29 | Geology and palaeontologyPalaeontologists announced the discovery of a dinosaur-like animal - one that shared many characteristics with dinosaurs but fell just outside of the dinosaur family tree - living 10…
Floral changes across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary linked to extensive volcanism
— 13 Jul 2009 17:00 | Geology and palaeontologyThe turnover of land plants in Europe at the boundary of the Triassic and Jurassic periods, 200 million years ago, was driven by environmental changes triggered by massive volcanic…
Sudden collapse in ancient biodiversity: Was global warming the culprit?
— 19 Jun 2009 07:31 | EnvironmentScientists have unearthed striking evidence for a sudden ancient collapse in plant biodiversity. A trove of 200 million-year-old fossil leaves collected in East Greenland tells the…
Extinction by asteroid a rarity
— 8 Oct 2008 07:18 | Geology and palaeontologyIn geology as in cancer research, the silver bullet theory always gets the headlines and nearly always turns out to be wrong. For geologists who study mass extinctions, the silver bullet…
Mass extinctions and the evolution of dinosaurs
— 7 Oct 2008 06:24 | Geology and palaeontologyReporting in Biology Letters, Steve Brusatte, Professor Michael Benton, and colleagues at the University of Bristol show that dinosaurs did not proliferate immediately after they originated,…
Extinct species had large teeth on roof of mouth
— 12 Sep 2008 19:40 | Geology and palaeontologyWhen the world's land was congealed in one supercontinent 240 million years ago, Antarctica wasn't the forbiddingly icy place it is now. But palaeontologists have found a previously…