and snakes slunk and slithered on and off the Triassic coast, lakes, and rivers. Pterosaurs, a group of flying reptiles, took to the air. On firm ground, moss, liverwort, and ferns carpeted ...

That make them able to identify a plant from the Late Triassic period ... it is actually part of the now-extinct group of ...

Researchers developed a picture of the Triassic and Jurassic ecosystems from ... In these samples, they found large quantities of tree fern remains as well as other types of plants and charcoal.

Schematic scenario for flood basalt eruptions at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary ... Picture on the right: Phlebopteris. The fern fossil is from a quarry in Southern Germany (Pechgraben) from ...

The Triassic climate was relatively hot and dry ... These changes allowed plants such as ferns and horsetails to grow over huge areas. Some of this vegetation became the fossil fuels that we mine ...

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 Triassic period stands out in Earth’s history as the time when dinosaurs first evolved. It was followed by the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods – at the end of the latter, the dinosaurs ...