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 ...

Stegosaurus, Allosaurus and Diplodocus are among the Jurassic Period’s most famous faces. But how dinosaurs went from a small and unimportant group of reptiles to ruling our planet for millions of ...

occurring at the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods, and setting the stage for the rise of dinosaurs, which dominated the Jurassic period afterward. The CAMP eruptions—which ...

At the end of the Triassic, another mass extinction occurred. This time, 80% of the Earth's species died off. Leaving the surviving dinosaurs to adapt and evolve during the Jurassic Period.

Paleontologists have known something strange happened between the end of the Triassic Period and the beginning of the Jurassic for the better part of a century. In the latest days of the Triassic ...

It marked the end of the Triassic period and the beginning of the Jurassic, the period when dinosaurs arose to take the place of Triassic creatures and dominate the planet. The exact mechanisms of ...

And the period (as it is now known ... examining had become sturdier over the course of the Mesozoic era (the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods), in response, presumably, to shell-crushing ...

The remains dated back to a range of time spanning the Late Triassic to early Jurassic Period, from around 247 million years ago to 200 million years ago. “(Bromalites) contain so much ...

were keen to test two competing hypotheses about the dinosaurs' rise to dominance from the Late Triassic Period (237 million to 201 million years ago) to the onset of the Jurassic Period between ...