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

Stegosaurus, Allosaurus and Diplodocus are among the Jurassic Period’s most famous faces. But how dinosaurs went from a small and unimportant group of reptiles to ruling our planet for millions of ...

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

Lush vegetation grew in the Jurassic Period, providing plenty of food for plant-eating dinosaurs, such as this Stegosaurus During the Jurassic Period, the single land mass, Pangaea, split into two, ...

Much like modern katydids, this Jurassic species had two pairs of wings, and even though the fossil insect’s legs were not found, comparisons with closely related katydids hint that it crawled ...