The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 million years ago. This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and ...

This finding, according to the study, is instrumental in helping researchers understand how these creatures diversified during the Early Jurassic Period. The fossil, which was uncovered from the Lower ...

The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period species. The plesiosaur, considered a successful marine predatory ancient species ...

Birds are the most diverse land vertebrates. Some studies suggest their earliest diversification dates back to the Jurassic period, around 145 million years ago. However, the early history of birds is ...

It features a short tail ending in a single bone, similar to modern birds. This structure indicates that key bird-like traits began developing in the Late Jurassic Period, nearly 20 million years ...

This reclassification casts doubt on whether any true bird fossils from the Jurassic period have actually been found. But the new fossils provide fresh insights into the Jurassic era birds.

The newly discovered Baminornis zhenghensis, a quail-sized bird, roamed the skies some 150 million years ago during the Jurassic period, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal ...

These fossils help fill a gap in the early history of bird evolution, providing new evidence that birds had already diversified by the end of the Jurassic period. The findings were recently ...

Feb 12 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period and possessed surprisingly ...

A network of nearly 200 dinosaur footprints, dating back to the Middle Jurassic period, has been found at a quarry in Oxfordshire, marking the largest discovery of its kind in the United Kingdom.