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 ...

Pine trees were around but not common. Many of the conifers would have looked like monkey puzzle trees. In the Jurassic Period this family of conifers (Araucariaceae) grew worldwide and was much more ...

The newly identified dinosaur may have been about the size of a pony, and was at least eight years old when it died, according to the researchers. The fossil was first recorded by paleontologists ...