These two supercontinents coexisted during the Mesozoic Era (251 to 66 million years ago) but Pangaea united them around 335 million years ago. The continents we know today originated with the ...

3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time in ... all the Earth's landmasses had coalesced to form Pangaea, a supercontinent shaped like a giant C ...

An international team of paleontologists, geoscientists and biologists has found via analysis of melanosome patterns in ...

At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the supercontinent Pangaea as ... be the same in the new era that dawned after the close of the Mesozoic era.

Scientists divide the Mesozoic Era into three periods: the Triassic ... All continents during the Triassic Period were part of a single land mass called Pangaea. This meant that differences between ...

The Triassic Period was a time of great change. Bookended by extinctions, this era saw huge shifts in the diversity and dominance of life on Earth, ushering in the appearance of many well-known groups ...