Ginkgo biloba is the only remaining member of their group Ginkgoales, the diversity of which began declining in the Late Cretaceous. Image courtesy of Max Pixel (CC0) When the Cretaceous Period and ...

Scientists divide the Mesozoic Era into three periods: the Triassic ... Coelophysis lived towards the end of the Triassic Period, as did these other Late Triassic dinosaurs. At the end of the Triassic ...

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

3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time ... of dinosaurs and the first mammals in the late Triassic, starting around 230 million years ago.

It is my privilege to announce the discovery of a Crossopterygian ifish of a type believed to have become extinct by the close of the Mesozoic period. This fish was taken by trawl-net at a depth ...

In fact, the land, seas, and skies would never be the same in the new era that dawned after the close of the Mesozoic era.

This article examines the fastest dinosaurs from the Mesozoic era ... This small, bird-like dinosaur thrived during the Late Cretaceous period across what is now North America.

Li et al. then applied the model to fossilized melanosomes of 6 Mesozoic mammaliaforms – including a newly described euharamiyidan species from the Late Jurassic (~158.5 mya). The authors ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Analysis of melanosome patterns in fossilized Mesozoic mammals indicates they likely had dark, uniformly dull fur. A predictive model, trained on melanosome data ...