New clues from ancient seas are reshaping what we know about mass extinction and the future of our oceans. In a recent ...

A new study reveals that ocean acidification, triggered by a massive carbon dioxide surge from volcanic activity during the ...

In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the ...

Ichthyosaur fossil confirmed for the first time in western Japan — also marks Japan’s first discovery of a Late Triassic ...

Scientists say rocks on the English coast contain clues of the processes that drove the end-Triassic event that killed as much as a quarter of all life on Earth. By Lucas Joel Some 200 million ...

Cymbospondylus youngorum was part of a group of reptiles that returned to the ocean during the Triassic Period – the beginning of the age of the dinosaurs – and totally adapted to marine life.

About 250 million years ago, the Permian-Triassic mass extinction killed over 80 per cent of the planet's species. In the aftermath, scientists believe that life on earth was dominated by simple ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

Thus the land slowly gained upon the Triassic ocean, shutting it within ever-narrowing limits, and preparing the large inland seas so characteristic of the later Secondary times.

About 246 million years ago, a sea lizard with a skull the size of a grand piano died in the ancient ocean that is now Nevada. It was an ichthyosaur, and its body was most likely the size of a ...