All Articles Tagged As: triassic period

Canada's shores saved animals from devastating climate change (10/2/2008)

Researchers solve mystery of massive global extinction event 252 million years ago ...> Full Article

Mass extinctions and the slow rise of dinosaurs (10/1/2008)

Dinosaurs survived two mass extinctions and 50 million years before taking over the world and dominating ecosystems ...> Full Article

Dinosaurs' 'superiority' challenged by their crocodile cousins (9/12/2008)

Good luck, not general 'superiority', was the primary factor in the rise of the dinosaurs ...> Full Article

Researcher Leads Worldwide Study on Marine Fossil Diversity (7/17/2008)

It took a decade of painstaking study, the cooperation of hundreds of researchers, and a database of more than 200,000 fossil records, but researcher thinks he's disproved much of the conventional wisdom about the diversity of marine fossils and extinction rates. ...> Full Article

Recovering from a mass extinction (1/19/2008)

The full recovery of ecological systems, following the most devastating extinction event of all time, took at least 30 million years, according to new research from the University of Bristol. ...> Full Article