Field-defining discoveries can come from new and unexpected places,” palaeontologist Natalia Jagielska told IFLScience.

201.4 million to 174.7 million years ago the Middle Jurassic, 174.7 million to 161.5 million years ago the Late Jurassic, 161.5 million to 145 million years ago The world’s continents were once joined ...

Researchers from Germany’s State Collection for Paleontology and Geology state this new pterosaur species lived during the late Early Jurassic. Scientists have been fascinated by these ancient ...

Forests of ferns, cycads, and conifers. Warm, moist, tropical breezes. This was the Jurassic, which took place 199 to 145 million years ago. At the start of the period, the breakup of the ...

Allosaurus was the most common large carnivore of the Late Jurassic in North America. It was a smaller predecessor of the Cretaceous Tyrannosaurus. Strong forelimbs with sharp claws, powerful hind ...

fossil plants in addition to rarely associated dinosaur trackways of the Late Jurassic Period 150 million years ago. “It is splendid that such an important site has been discovered at just the right ...

“We have fragmentary data from the Kimmeridgian [Era, in the late Jurassic Period] – vertebrae or paddle bones and so on – that suggest that there were larger pliosaurs around. We just haven ...

Scientists divide the Mesozoic Era into three periods: the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. During this era, the land gradually split from one huge supercontinent into smaller ones. The associated ...