The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 ...

such as this Stegosaurus During the Jurassic Period, the single land mass, Pangaea, split into two, creating Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south. Despite this separation, similarities in ...

“It was kind of the service station for the Middle Jurassic,” Blakesley said. “The dinosaurs would have come down from the surrounding land masses, drop down for a drink, move on. This was very much a ...

On the land, they proliferated, filling many of the vacated ecological niches. Thanks to the Jurassic mass extinction, they went on to dominate the rest of the Jurassic Period, which became known ...