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 Jurassic Period is named after the Jura Mountains ... “Then you would have had lots of plants related to modern Ephedra – small, shrubby gymnosperms – and ferns.” This is the trunk of a ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the supercontinent Pangaea as rodents scurried at their feet through forests of ferns ... up where the Jurassic left off ...

Some Jurassic ferns looked very similar to those around today ... Evidence suggests grasses didn't evolve until after the Jurassic Period, towards the end of the Cretaceous Period. Insects in the ...

The leaves of this seed fern species already exhibited the net ... we were able to identify a plant from the Late Triassic period that showed a unique set of leaf characters, as a member of ...