During the start of the Jurassic, ocean levels were lower than they are today, but then they rose significantly over the period. This means there aren’t as many places for us to look for the fossils ...

Here, we will explore what the Earth was like at this time, the plants and animals that existed, and the extinction events that they endured. The Jurassic Period can be subdivided into three epochs.

While the northern hemisphere's biggest dinosaurs lived during the Jurassic, it was in the Cretaceous that the southern hemisphere saw its largest reptiles. In fact, during this period, some of the ...

Vegetation is food for many animals, so its change always affects representatives ... According to the TSU paleontologist, in the Jurassic period, the most catastrophic consequences of warming turned ...

A body fossil of a thorny-headed worm (Acanthocephala) has been dated to the Jurassic period, about 165 million years ago. It has characteristics of both Acanthocephala and tiny animals called ...

The iconic image from the original Jurassic Park movie may still be the formidable T-Rex, but the rebooted Jurassic Park features powerful dinosaurs which can give the T-Rex a challenge.

Birds are vertebrate animals adapted for flight ... shows that birds evolved alongside the dinosaurs during the Jurassic period 160 million years ago. The best known fossil is archaeopteryx ...

It was only in the next geologic period, the Jurassic, that the powerful pseudosuchians died back and the dinosaurs really took over, evolving into huge animals like the stegosaurus and the long ...