The Triassic is a tale of two histories. One is its natural history, begun after the Great Permian Dying, 252m years ago, when, as happens from time to time, plate tectonics brought Earth’s continents ...

At first, these creatures were much smaller, but they eventually outgrew other animals ... In the Triassic ocean, marine reptiles such as the plesiosaurs were kings. Plesiosaurus, an early ...

Well-preserved plants, bones, fish parts and even whole insects embedded in widely varying shapes and sizes of ancient animal ... the Triassic Period. For tens of millions of years, these early ...