The Jurassic is a geological period that began 201.4 million years ago and ended 145 million years ago. It’s part of the Mesozoic Era – the part of our planet’s prehistory known as the age of the ...

Scientists divide the Mesozoic Era into three periods: the Triassic ... Lush vegetation grew in the Jurassic Period, providing plenty of food for plant-eating dinosaurs, such as this Stegosaurus ...

During the age of dinosaurs, early mammals probably lacked the stripes and spots of their modern relatives, having uniformly dark, drab coats.

3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time in ... Dinosaurs, however, survived and went on to dominate the Jurassic.

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

The early mammals that lived alongside the dinosaurs upwards of 150 million years ago (mya) were likely covered in dark and dusky greyish-brown fur, according to a quantitative reconstruction of ...

Those years are known as the Cretaceous period, the longest portion of the Mesozoic era, which ended approximately ... if you’re thinking Jurassic Park, think again. When Borealopelta lumbered ...