In our last episode, we discussed The Great Dying, the transitional extinction event that ended the Permian and Paleozoic times and kickstarted the Triassic and Mesozoic! While the Mesozoic is often thought of as the Age of the Dinosaurs (and it *is* the time when they both evolved and went largely extinct), the first part of the Mesozoic was dominated by other groups of animals. But who?! Find out, this week on Petri Dish!

References:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825220302221

https://www.britannica.com/science/Triassic-Period/Paleoclimate

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/the-triassic-period-the-rise-of-the-dinosaurs.html

https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/mesozoic/triassic/triassic.php

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2017.1394922