A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

The period of time before the Triassic was called the Permian. This was a time when a wide variety of animals lived ... in its curve is called the Tethys Sea. The interior of Pangaea would ...

The lineage that would give rise to the crocodiles was instead represented in the Triassic by much smaller, more gracile animals. It was around 240 million ... to have led to huge climatic upheavals.

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 ...

One scientist proposed they belonged to a weird sea creature, and another thought ... Pterosaurs originated during the Triassic Period — well before the other two groups of flying ...

Explore the Triassic world: how dinosaurs rose up after a mass extinction period and thrived in land, sea, sky “It is so ... on its website. These animals are usually found about 170 to 2,140 ...

"These were predatory animals that fed on fishes ... of the first five million years of the Triassic, there is evidence that life on land and in the sea moved away from the tropics to avoid ...

"These were predatory animals that fed on fishes ... of the first five million years of the Triassic, there is evidence that life on land and in the sea moved away from the tropics to avoid ...

Italy’s pale and towering Dolomite Mountains are an offshoot of the more extensive Alps, and are famous for their snowy colored exterior, bounty of fossils, and rich history. These mountains used to ...

and gave rise to new creatures, including rodent-size mammals and the first dinosaurs. By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's landmasses had coalesced to form Pangaea, a supercontinent ...