A new dinosaur species, Mamenchisaurus sanjiangensis, with an incredibly long neck rewrites the history of Jurassic dinosaurs ...

The heyday of dinosaurs, the Jurassic era saw Earth’s climate change from hot and dry to humid and subtropical. The Jurassic period was characterized by a warm, wet climate that gave rise to lush ...

Scientists studied thousands of dinosaur footprints in Bolivia and uncovered how these animals moved, ran, and interacted on ...

In February 2021 Joe Davis, a conservation team leader at the Rutland Water Nature Reserve in Great Britain, stumbled upon something that, at first, seemed like a series of rocks or pipes. Davis, ...

A remarkable Early Jurassic record has been hiding in plain sight for 20 years on a slab of rock displayed at a high school in Biloela, Australia, according to a new study. While researchers knew the ...

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 million years ago. This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and ...

What is the Jurassic period and why did it end? What is the Jurassic period and why did it end? The forgotten fossil hunter who transformed Britain’s Jurassic Coast The forgotten fossil hunter who ...

Time travel has just been invented. And — congratulations — you’re being sent 200 million years back to the Jurassic period. After hurling through time and space, you wake up to chirping birds and ...

The pliosaur was a carnivorous reptilian apex predator that roamed and ruled the seas for millions of years during the Jurassic period. In late 2023, an extraordinary discovery along the rugged cliffs ...

Paleontologists have discovered the largest pterosaur ever to rule the skies of the Jurassic period. The 170 million-year-old fossil unearthed in Scotland's Isle of Skye belongs to a creature (from a ...