As these continents further divided, what we now call the Atlantic Ocean also started to form. The climate during the ...

This was the Jurassic, which took place 199 to 145 million years ago. At the start of the period, the breakup of ... pushing sea levels higher and onto the continents. All this water gave the ...

The Jurassic Period is named after the Jura Mountains ... 161.5 million to 145 million years ago The world’s continents were once joined together into a massive supercontinent called Pangea. During ...

Despite this separation, similarities in their fossil records show that there were some land connections between the two continents early in the Jurassic. These regions became more distinct later in ...

This similarity indicates that the Iberian Peninsula once served as a fundamental bridge between the continents ... of dinosaurs during the Late Jurassic period. The article was written with ...

Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse them.

A body fossil of a thorny-headed worm (Acanthocephala) has been dated to the Jurassic period, about 165 million years ago. It has characteristics of both Acanthocephala and tiny animals called ...

As these continents further divided, what we now call the Atlantic Ocean also started to form. The climate during the Jurassic Period was warmer than it is today and is often described as having ...