There’s some speculation that flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, appeared in the Jurassic, but currently there’s no clear evidence to support this. If they were around in this period, then ...

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

It comes after the Jurassic Period and before the Paleogene - the first period of the Cenozoic ... would have had to survive four months of the year living in the total darkness of polar night. A very ...

Here, visitors can learn about how some of these plants continue to thrive today ... have evolved through millions of years from the Jurassic period." Ticket prices are not available yet ...

Here, we will explore what the Earth was like at this time, the plants and animals that existed, and the extinction events that they endured. The Jurassic Period can be subdivided into three epochs.

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 ...

In 2009, an amber outcrop was found near the village of Aintourine in Lebanon. Generally, amber is fossilised tree resin that ...

At the end of the period, about 80 million years later, oceans filled yawning gaps between isolated continents shaped much as they are today. Flowering plants ... up where the Jurassic left ...

Was there more oxygen in the Jurassic period? The increase in oxygen levels around 215 million years ... What era had the most oxygen? In the Carboniferous Period, plants became well established on ...

But back in the Triassic, there were scores of them, including armoured ones that ate plants, toothless omnivores ... It was only in the next geologic period, the Jurassic, that the powerful ...