No genuine sauropod gut contents had ever been found anywhere before, despite sauropods being known from fossils found on ...

"This finding confirms several hypotheses about the sauropod diet that had been made based on studies of their anatomy and ...

we looked for insect damage patterns that are unique to plants with nyctinastic behavior," study co-author Stephen McLoughlin, curator of Paleozoic and Mesozoic plants fossil collections at the ...

Some fossils suggest that some Mesozoic plants even existed before the mass extinction event, which could be evidence of uninterrupted evolution. In this new study, a team of scientists from ...

Mass extinctions clearly upend the status quo. Now, our ocean floors are dominated by clams burrowed into sand and mud, the ...

Scientists divide the Mesozoic Era into three periods ... This meant that differences between animals or plants found in different areas were minor. The Triassic climate was relatively hot and dry, ...