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A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a ...

They unearthed fossils of animals like turtles, ancestors of modern-day crocodiles, and plesiosaurs (long-necked cousins of pliosaurs) from the Jurassic period ... one of the most complete ...

Lesothosaurus diagnosticus was one of the most primitive and earliest ornithischians ... in what is now southern Africa in the early Jurassic period, just over 200 million years ago.

"Finally we can confirm and publish Scotland's first recorded and most complete dinosaur ... The fossil dates from the Middle Jurassic period, making it around 166 million years old.