A new study of fossilized teeth reveals that monster Jurassic-Era predators thrived in deep water more than 150 million years ago. The study, from paleontologists at Edinburgh University, also ...

The Jurassic period (199.6 million to 145.5 million years ago) was characterized by a warm, wet climate that gave rise to lush vegetation and abundant life.

At first, it seems like a case of extinction by climate change: More than 160 million years ago, during the Jurassic period, a fanciful menagerie crept, swam, and flew through the cool, damp ...

The debateover climate change and its effects is often headline news. In the near future,scientists are concerned that the Earth will experience a continuing increasein global temperature. New ...

How did the Jurassic Period start? The end of the Triassic Period, 201.4 million years ago, is marked by one of our planet’s top five major mass extinction events.. What caused it isn’t clear, though ...

Dinosaur Flatulence Dutch-Ovened the Jurassic Period. By Slate Video Staff. May 07, 2012 2:13 PM. ... contributing significantly to a warmer climate 150 million years ago. ...

150 million years ago, Earth experienced a massive climate shift, ... The answer lies in geography—watch as we uncover how Earth’s changing surface shaped the Jurassic period! ...

Dinosaurs were primarily cold-adapted animals that also lived in warm climates, says a new study. When other animals went extinct during planetary cooling, dinosaurs survived into the Jurassic period.

The Jurassic (∼201–145 Myr ago) was long considered a warm ‘greenhouse’ period; more recently cool, even ‘icehouse’ episodes have been postulated. However, the mechanisms governing ...