The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 million years ago. This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and ...

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

The Jurassic fossil Juracanthocephalus reveals a key evolutionary link between rotifers and parasitic acanthocephalans, resolving debates about their origins and anatomy. A research team from the Nanj ...

In 2009, an amber outcrop was found near the village of Aintourine in Lebanon. Generally, amber is fossilised tree resin that ...

Paleontologists at the quarry say the fossils there, some of them possibly from new species, date back about 200 million years to the early Jurassic period, which followed a mass extinction event ...