The Jurassic period, spanning from about 201 to 145 million ... Recent research has focused on uncovering new fossil evidence, understanding the distribution of these ancient plants, and exploring ...

Scientists studying one of the largest pterosaur fossils ever found and identified have concluded that these animals were ...

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been ...

The remains of the earliest dinosaurs may lie undiscovered in the Amazon and other equatorial regions of South America and Africa, suggests a new study.

New research suggests that the earliest dinosaurs may have originated in equatorial regions of Gondwana, encompassing the ...

As the largest pterosaur of the Jurassic period known to science ... found elsewhere in the world that could fill gaps in the fossil record. “We discovered powerful depressions excavated ...

The remains of the earliest dinosaurs may lie undiscovered in the Amazon and other equatorial regions of South America and ...

This era, which lasted from about 252 to 201 million years ago, saw the rise of the earliest dinos, before they became dominant in the Jurassic period. “We have, with these fossils, the oldest ...

The mystery behind the origins of the dinosaurs may have been given a new twist, with a modeling study suggesting they may have evolved in what is today equatorial Africa and South America. This would ...

Scientists were able to date the tracks to the middle of the Jurassic Period ... the dinosaur tracks for millions of years for the fossil record, Richard Butler, a palaeobiologist at the ...

Scientists have unearthed nearly 200 dinosaur footprints, dating back 166 million years to the Middle Jurassic Period ... exciting dinosaur tracks and body fossils,” said Kirsty Edgar, a ...

"South Korea has a record of 12.2 centimeters ... However, both were from the Cretaceous period, tens of millions of years after the Jurassic period." The findings, published in the journal ...