Stardust to Storytellers Prehistory

Optional Activities

Walking the Walk: Look up videos or images of a modern iguana or crocodile walking vs a dog or bird. Can you see the sprawling vs upright posture difference in living animals today?

Triassic Survivor Profile: Research one Triassic survivor (a crocodilian, a pterosaur, or a therapsid (early mammal-like reptile)) Create a one-page profile: appearance, diet, habitat, and why it survived when many others didn’t.
Permian vs Triassic Ecosystem Compare: Draw a before-and-after showing a Permian ecosystem vs a Triassic ecosystem recovering from the Great Dying. What was lost? What was new? What does the recovery tell us about how ecosystems rebuild after mass extinction?