By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's landmasses had ... ginkgoes, and palm-like cycads. Spiders, scorpions, millipedes, and centipedes thrived. Grasshoppers appeared.

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 ...

While the origin of flowering plants may go back as far as the Triassic Period, we don't see much evidence ... Of the around 370 species of cycads alive today, almost all of them are toxic to most ...

Fossil Cycad National Monument was removed from the Park Service in 1957, but the story doesn’t end there. More than 20 years ago, in the dusty basement of a park Service library in West Virginia, ...

"But it may be the best place to see the terrestrial realm's transition from the Permian to the Triassic period." We ascended through sheep-ranching country toward the Lootsberg Pass. The rocks ...

This photo is of a 200 million-year-old cycad and conifers from East Greenland ... "Fossil Plant Relative Abundances Indicate Sudden Loss of Late Triassic Biodiversity in East Greenland." ...

The end of the Triassic Period, 201.4 million years ago ... the Jurassic was the age of the gymnosperms – a group of seed-producing plants that includes conifers, cycads and ginkgos. A lot of the ...

Palaeontologists think the footprints, which are up to 75cm (30in) apart, were made by a huge herbivore from the late Triassic period, and now there are efforts to get them verified. Tegan and mum ...

Mega ocean warming El Niño events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research. Scientists have long linked this mass ...

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 ...