Contenders for the true first birds have now been found in Chinese rocks dating from the late Jurassic, around 149 million years ago. If accepted as birds, as the scientists who described them ...

201.4 million to 174.7 million years ago the Middle Jurassic, 174.7 million to 161.5 million years ago the Late Jurassic, 161.5 million to 145 million years ago The world’s continents were once joined ...

Allosaurus was the most common large carnivore of the Late Jurassic in North America. It was a smaller predecessor of the Cretaceous Tyrannosaurus. Strong forelimbs with sharp claws, powerful hind ...

Forests of ferns, cycads, and conifers. Warm, moist, tropical breezes. This was the Jurassic, which took place 199 to 145 million years ago. At the start of the period, the breakup of the ...

The large sauropod dinosaur Diplodocus lived in the Jurassic Period. Explore other dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic. During the Cretaceous the land separated further into some of the continents we ...

The turtle shell was found during an extensive dig in the Jura Mountains, which gave the Jurassic Period its name, undertaken at the start of the 21 st century. The construction of Highway A16 ...

Chinese and Brazilian researchers have unearthed a nearly complete fossilized skeleton of a previously unknown pterosaur species in Jianchang County, northeast China's Liaoning Province.