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 ...

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

The Fossil Forest in Dorset is a stretch of southern English coastline peppered with living mounds of limestone that hide the remains of cypress trees from the late Jurassic period.

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 ...

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 ...

There are four main quarries within the multi-level, 640-acre site that offer a diverse assemblage of Morrison Formation articulated and semi-articulated dinosaurs that has also yielded associated ...

This was many millions of years before the first modern humans, Homo sapiens, appeared. Scientists divide the Mesozoic Era into three periods: the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. During this era, ...

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 ...

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 ...