The end-Triassic extinction, which happened 201 million years ago, was Earth’s third most severe extinction event since the dawn of animal life. Like today, CO 2 rise and global warming were present, ...

Everything has its pecking order, and geology is no exception. The cocks of the rocks are the big, swaggering periods of the past that fill books, television programmes and natural-history museums.

Arizona rock core to yield coherent picture of turbulent period. You have full access to this article via your institution. Tourists flock to Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona to marvel at ...

It’s often called “the time it rained for two million years.” That’s not quite right, but the real story may be even stranger ...

KS3/GCSE Geography. Coasts and rocks. Liz Bonnin introduces a clip examining the geology of the Jurassic Coast in southern ...

Locked within the stones and fossils of Petrified Forest National Park lies a record of life, death, and resilience during one of Earth's most extreme periods of environmental change. What secrets do ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I moved to Utah for the dinosaurs. The state ...

Research offers ‘a sobering warning’ on the impact of today’s climate emergency Volcanic eruptions played an important and direct role in triggering the extreme climate that killed off swathes of life ...

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 were wiped ...

In Italy, the dawn of the greatest empire in the history of the world is marked, not by broken marble pediments strewn across the seven hills of Rome, but modest three-toed footprints pressed into ...