Pterosaurs evolved active flight over 230 million years ago. The discovery of Melkamter pateko in Argentina suggests ...

and the first representatives of this group appear in the fossil record in the Late Jurassic, some 160 million years ago. However, our knowledge of pterosaur evolution in the Jurassic is based ...

Researchers from Germany’s State Collection for Paleontology and Geology state this new pterosaur species lived during the late Early Jurassic. Scientists have been fascinated by these ancient ...

201.4 million to 174.7 million years ago the Middle Jurassic, 174.7 million to 161.5 million years ago the Late Jurassic, 161.5 million to 145 million years ago The world’s continents were once joined ...

Pterodactylus, which lived during the late Jurassic period, was the first pterosaur genus paleontologists discovered. As a result, a Pterodactyl may be the first thing that comes to your mind when ...

Forests of ferns, cycads, and conifers. Warm, moist, tropical breezes. This was the Jurassic, which took place 199 to 145 million years ago. At the start of the period, the breakup of the ...

Allosaurus was the most common large carnivore of the Late Jurassic in North America. It was a smaller predecessor of the Cretaceous Tyrannosaurus. Strong forelimbs with sharp claws, powerful hind ...

fossil plants in addition to rarely associated dinosaur trackways of the Late Jurassic Period 150 million years ago. “It is splendid that such an important site has been discovered at just the right ...

“We have fragmentary data from the Kimmeridgian [Era, in the late Jurassic Period] – vertebrae or paddle bones and so on – that suggest that there were larger pliosaurs around. We just haven ...

The transition from the basal forms to the pterodactyloids happened during the Jurassic, and the first representatives of this group appear in the fossil record in the Late Jurassic, some 160 ...