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.

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, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Classical plate tectonic theory was developed in the 1960s. It proposed ...

The researchers found that Greater Adria started to become its own continent about 240 million years ago during the Triassic period. “From this mapping emerged the picture of Greater Adria, and ...

In a paper published in Science China Earth Sciences, a team of scientists propose a comprehensive summary of the main fossil sequences and lithostratigraphy of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) ...

The Permian-Triassic world 250 million years ago, showing all continents fused as the supercontinent Pangaea, the tropical belt (orange and yellow colours), and reptile distributions. Disclaimer: AAAS ...

Indian Creek Basin, as it might have appeared in the Triassic. Illustration by Franz Anthony Mass extinctions are a window into past climate disasters. They give a glimpse of the chemical and ...

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