Throughout the evolutionary history of life on earth, there have been some pretty strange creatures. If you tried to make a creature as strange as a platypus, for example, you just can’t think of ...

and gave rise to new creatures, including rodent-size mammals and the first dinosaurs. By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's landmasses had coalesced to form Pangaea, a supercontinent ...

The lineage that would give rise to the crocodiles was instead represented in the Triassic by much smaller, more gracile animals. It was around 240 million ... but what is now the Atlantic Ocean ...

At first, these creatures were much smaller ... Dinosaur embryo found curled up and ready to hatch like a bird In the Triassic ocean, marine reptiles such as the plesiosaurs were kings.

Hartman’s research focuses on the main forcing mechanism that determines what animals ... end of the Triassic period, the processes pushing the plates together started rifting. The proto-Atlantic ...