Life that survived the so-called ... By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's landmasses had coalesced to form Pangaea, a supercontinent shaped like a giant C that straddled the Equator ...

the dinosaurs were wiped out in a mass extinction event along with the majority of all other life. As a period of geologic time, the boundaries of the Triassic are defined on the basis of rocks ...

Slowly, this giant continent, called Pangaea, broke apart and spread to form the continents we ... not have ice caps and flowering plants. Life in the Triassic period had a rough start.

It wasn’t until the late Triassic period (approximately 225 million ... While many of Earth’s earliest life forms have long since gone extinct, some animals have stood the test of time ...

but actually a period of intense pressure that many forms of life had not evolved to cope with. Crocodile relatives, like the predatory Saurosuchus, were hit hard by the Triassic-Jurassic extinction.

The surprising discovery of a new species of extinct crocodile relative from the Triassic Favret Formation of Nevada, U.S., rewrites the story of life along the coasts during the first act of the ...

The Triassic-Jurassic extinction was not as rapid ... but actually a period of intense pressure that many forms of life had not evolved to cope with. As with all mass extinctions, of course ...