This article examines the fastest dinosaurs from the Mesozoic era, exploring their anatomical ... feeding on small animals and possibly plants. Megalosaurus, the first known dinosaur, was a ...

Riley Black’s new book, When the Earth was Green, uses the latest research to envision the ancient worlds of our favorite prehistoric animals.

In the Mesozoic Era, dinosaurs were the undisputed rulers of ... Cope’s Rule is rooted in the observation that larger animals often possess certain evolutionary advantages, such as improved ...

Scientists divide the Mesozoic Era into three periods: the Triassic ... At the end of the Triassic Period there was a mass extinction, the causes of which are still hotly debated. Many large land ...

Our dinosaur expert Dr Susie Maidment and fossil plant expert Dr Paul Kenrick explore what the world was like back then and the animals and plants that called our planet home. The Cretaceous is a ...

THE long-lost forefather of the beloved duck and goose has been discovered, after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The feathered creature thrived during the Cretaceous period, and continued to do so ...

Scientists have revealed that a 69-million-year-old animal skull discovered in Antarctica belongs to the oldest known modern ...

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They recovered a well-preserved hip bone (sacrum) of an Edmontosaurus dinosaur from the Hell Creek Formation in South Dakota. This formation dates back to the late Cretaceous period, suggesting this ...

3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time in ... including rodent-size mammals and the first dinosaurs. By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's ...