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 supercontinent Pangaea continued and accelerated.

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 ...

You might know the Cretaceous Period for big animals ... happens earlier on in the Jurassic with gymnosperms [a group of seed-producing plants], but it becomes much bigger with the flowering plants.' ...

These new footprints, which preserve a lot of anatomical detail, further support that “small ornithischian dinosaurs achieved a global distribution by the beginning of the Jurassic Period,” he ...