Here, we will look at the animals that lived on the Earth during one particular geological time: the Mesozoic Era. We will look at the extinction events that took place during that era and how ...

The Mesozoic era began roughly around the time of the end-Permian extinction, which wiped out 96 percent of marine life and 70 percent of all terrestrial species on the planet. Life slowly ...

Alligators date back to the Mesozoic era, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. They’re actually quite closely related to ...

The Cretaceous period was the last and longest segment of the Mesozoic era. It lasted approximately 79 million years, from the minor extinction event that closed the Jurassic period about 145 ...

This extinction was connected with massive volcanic ... lasting from about 145 to 66 million years ago, was the end of the Mesozoic Era. The planet was warm, and sea levels were high.

The largest extinction events define a change in era. The end of the Paleozoic and beginning of the Mesozoic 251 million years ago marks the largest mass extinction in the history of the planet, which ...

Their disappearance from their prior habitats began during the late Mesozoic and continued into the early Cenozoic Era, punctuated by the cataclysmic ... angiosperm plants that flourished after the ...