The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 ...

Tyrannosaurus rex ancestors and their plant-eating dinosaur prey would have congregated to drink water from a lagoon in what ...

A new discovery on the Isle of Skye in Scotland has revealed an unusually detailed window into the Middle Jurassic, a period ...

The life of a 166-million-year-old reptile has been turned upside down. While Marmoretta oxoniensis was believed to have swum ...

New dinosaur fossil tracks on the Isle of Skye reveal that the once-balmy environment was home to both fierce theropods and massive sauropods.

The new site features over 130 footprints and trackways, some extending up to 12 meters in length. Jurassic-era dinosaurs ...

In June 2024, paleontologists made an extraordinary discovery in Oxfordshire, UK—a gigantic Jurassic pterosaur fossil. This remarkable find has captivated the scientific community and the public alike ...

It also requires a bit of imagination, he said. During the Middle Jurassic Period, the area would have had a warm, humid tropical climate,rather than the chilled wind and rain that define Scottish ...

Newly identified dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye have taught scientists something new about the prehistoric animals.

Many of the footprints belonged to theropods – meat-eating dinosaurs that walked on two legs. These include morphotype-1a, a ...

Traces of a bipedal dinosaur from around 165 million years ago were found in Ogliastra during the filming of a documentary.

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