The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 ...

During this period, Earth's climate changed from hot and dry ... Warm, moist, tropical breezes. This was the Jurassic, which took place 199 to 145 million years ago. At the start of the period ...

It’s possible that the release of huge amounts of sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide significantly disrupted Earth’s climate. Up to 80% of all species died out as a result. But dinosaurs survived and ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

but by the end of the Jurassic, this single landmass had begun to break apart. This continued throughout the Cretaceous and by the end of the period the continents had moved almost into the positions ...

Many of the footprints belonged to theropods – meat-eating dinosaurs that walked on two legs. These include morphotype-1a, a ...

New dinosaur fossil tracks on the Isle of Skye reveal that the once-balmy environment was home to both fierce theropods and massive sauropods.

Storke Memorial Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences at Columbia ... a global distribution by the beginning of the Jurassic Period,” he added. The study authors also analyzed two other ...

Plesiosaurs were long-necked reptiles that lived in the ocean during the time of the dinosaurs. While the area where this fossil was found—called the Posidonienschiefer Formation near Holzmaden—is ...

Queen of the Monsters #2, our heroic twins must travel back to the Jurassic Period to find and raise a baby Mothra. Time ...