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According to geologists at the UK’s Heriot Watt University, gigantic waves of mud and sand sediment about 250 miles off the ...

Exactly which animals were affected? Here, we will look at the animals that lived on the Earth during one particular geological time: the Mesozoic Era. We will look at the extinction events that ...

Fossils of footprints over 160 million years old have helped paleontologists at the University of Leicester to narrow down ...

When we think of the age of dinosaurs, we often picture huge reptiles like Tyrannosaurus rex or long-necked dinosaurs ...

In Chile's Torres del Paine National Park, the remarkably preserved remains of a pregnant ichthyosaur, nicknamed “Fiona,” ...

Non-bird dinosaurs lived between about 245 and 66 million years ago, in a time known as the Mesozoic Era. This was many millions of years before the first modern humans, Homo sapiens, appeared.

the researchers found five layers of sediment that they used to reconstruct the tectonic processes that divided the ancient continent of Gondwana in the Mesozoic era, when dinosaurs dominated the ...

3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time in Earth's history. Something—a bout of violent volcanic eruptions, climate change, or perhaps a fatal run ...

My research investigates the structure and dynamics of ancient ecosystems--particularly those of the Mesozoic Era (about 65 to 250 million years ago). I am interested in how ancient communities of ...

It represents the divide between the Palaeozoic and the Mesozoic Eras. Dr Mike Day is the curator of fossil reptiles at the Museum. He says, 'The Triassic is an interesting period. It forms the ...