During this period, Earth's climate changed from hot ... Gondwana, the southern half, began to break up by the mid-Jurassic. The eastern portion—Antarctica, Madagascar, India, and Australia ...

The Jurassic Period is named after the Jura Mountains ... But in the Jurassic, these were much drier places and most plants thrived in the mid-latitudes instead. There’s some speculation that ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known fossil of a tadpole, which lived among the Jurassic dinosaurs 160 million years ...

The researchers believe that N. degiustoi likely reached its giant size—which rivaled that of most anurans alive during the age of reptiles (251.9–66.0 million years ago)—as a result of having a long ...

The dinosaur was a herbivore that lived in the mid-Jurassic period, which was approximately 160 million years ago. The omeisaurus got its name because it was a sauropod, which is a lizard-hipped ...

The fossilization of the tadpole's "delicate structures," like its eyes and gills, allowed for a detailed analysis of the rare find.

It is the last period in the Mesozoic Era. It comes after the Jurassic Period and before the Paleogene - the first period of the Cenozoic Era, our current era. It lasted a long time, nearly 80 million ...

We’ve been using water from our own bore hole, from milestone rock, from the Mid Jurassic period, using the same water source ...

This time, 80% of the Earth's species died off. Leaving the surviving dinosaurs to adapt and evolve during the Jurassic Period. Jurassic Period (201 to 145 million years ago) During the Jurassic ...

Pterosaurs ruled the skies during the age of the dinosaurs. Over millions of years, they evolved into an enormous variety of ...