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During the early Triassic period, dinosaurs established their dominance in terrestrial ecosystems and became the largest animals to rule the Earth. Here are some dinosaurs that existed during the Triassic period:1. Mamenchisaurus2. Diplodocus3. Molisaurus4. Stegosaurus5. Pachycephalosaurus6. Velocir
In fact, dinosaurs did not appear in the Permian period. Dinosaurs began to appear in the early Triassic period, about 230 million years ago. The Permian period was the heyday of the ancestors of dinosaurs, the archosaurs.In the Permian period, animals on land included the ancestors of mammals, liza
The remains of an ichthyosaur discovered in Svalbard offer new insights into the evolution of ancient marine reptiles. New research suggests that ichthyosaurs may have predated the dinosaurs after experiencing the largest mass extinction event on Earth. The earliest ichth
In 1853, 20 Victorian dignitaries held a New Year's dinner inside a dinosaur model that had been on display in 1851. This model, which is still preserved in London's Crystal Palace Park, was the world's first real dinosaur model, and it captured the public's attention to this day. But now, mo
Some complex behaviors in biological evolution are difficult to observe in fossil evidence. Parental care (referring to the protection and feeding of offspring by parents) is an important adaptive behavior in the evolution of higher life, and it is also the key to the social nature of arthrop
A research team composed of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Zhejiang Natural History Museum discovered a prehistoric flying fish fossil dating back approximately 240 million years in Guizhou Province: Wushaichthys exqui
China has discovered six quite complete mammal fossils dating to 160 million years ago; and named three new species in two new genera of mythical beasts and fairy beasts, namely Shenshoului (Lu's mythical beast) and Xianshoulinglong (Linglong). Xianshousongae) and Xianshousongae (Song family
Chinese and American researchers said on the 12th that two fossils discovered in northern China showed that early mammals had learned to climb trees and dig holes in the ground during the Jurassic Period, which was dominated by dinosaurs about 160 million years ago. , showing diverse ecologic
"Filtering" is a common method of feeding in the animal kingdom, and it is also a way in which natural selection acts on the evolution of life. The latest issue of "Science" and its subsidiary journal "Science Advance" also reported two scientific research results from the Institute of Verteb
The turtle has always had a unique status in Chinese culture, and its status is very noble. Turtle, dragon, phoenix and lin are collectively called the Four Spirits. The turtle is regarded as a symbol of longevity, as mentioned in Cao Cao's "The Turtle is Longevity". Turtles were also regarde
Recently, the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported a new genus of marine reptiles about 244 million years ago, the long-tailed Red River Dragon. It was discovered in the early Middle Triassic marine strata of Luxi County, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan Province, my country. It is 47 centimeters in length
Dinosaurs were a group of reptiles that dominated land for more than 140 million years (more than 160 million years in some parts of the world). They evolved in different shapes and sizes, from the terrifying giant Spinosaurus to the chicken-sized Microraptor, and were able to survive in a va
We already know that the tragic mass extinction of the dinosaurs marked the end of the Mesozoic Era. In fact, it was not just the dinosaurs that became extinct. Those aquatic reptiles that were once widely distributed in the ocean-Ichthyosaur, plesiosaur, mosasaurus, etc., as well as flying r
A large number of primitive mammal fossil skeletons discovered in the Triassic strata of South Wales, England, are representatives of the earliest mammals on the earth. Paleontologists named them Morganotherium and placed them in the subclass Eotherium and the order Stylodontia.
As early as the late Triassic, when dinosaurs had just entered the evolutionary stage, a group of small animals that were inconspicuous at the time differentiated from therodonts among therapsid reptiles. They were born at the wrong time, because in the long years from the Jurassic to the Cre
Frogs, toads and salamanders are familiar amphibians. They are still active in ponds, rice fields, swamps, streams, rivers and wet places on land. All these living amphibians belong to a large family, the "slip-bodied amphibians", which used to be called "armorless amphibians". As the name su
Labyrinths are the earliest terrestrial vertebrates to appear on earth. They flourished in the Carboniferous and Permian periods, and a few species continued into the Triassic period. Its cone-shaped teeth have a labyrinth structure in cross-section, hence its name. The skull is composed of h
We Chinese have long known that turtles are long-lived animals, so there has been a proverb from ancient times: "A thousand-year-old king, an eighty-thousand-year-old turtle". But do you know? In the evolution of vertebrates, turtles and turtles also have a long history.