During the Jurassic, it started splitting into two giant landmasses known as Laurasia and Gondwana that were divided by a prehistoric body of water called the Tethys Ocean. The Atlantic Ocean also ...

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

While the oceans are now safe from the Megatooth, which went extinct an estimated 3.5 million years ago, Otodus megalodon has been revealed by new research to have occupied a higher position on the ...

Prosecutors played a scene from sci-fi flick “Jurassic Park” during a hearing in the murder case against accused Giglo Beach killer Rex Heuermann to bolster their DNA evidence.

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 ...

This was the birth of the North Atlantic Ocean. Coelophysis lived towards the end of the Triassic Period ... giving them the opportunity to evolve into a wide variety of forms and increase in number.

Researchers found a new fossil of a marine dinosaur, Plesiopterys wildi, which gives clues to early life during ancient times.