In fact, the land, seas, and skies would never be the same in the new era that dawned after the close of the Mesozoic era.

3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time in Earth's history. Something—a bout of violent volcanic eruptions, climate change, or perhaps a fatal run ...

Non-bird dinosaurs lived between about 245 and 66 million years ago, in a time known as the Mesozoic Era. This was many millions of years before the first modern humans, Homo sapiens, appeared.

That broken plate part, which functioned as the seafloor during the early Mesozoic era, would have subducted under those two plates, whose boundary now forms the fastest widening oceanic ridge in ...

“Based on the recent knowledge, fireflies originated in the Mesozoic Era although the more precise period of their origin remains unclear. … Future discoveries may reveal further information ...

How often do things line up this nicely? Those sticks you gathered from the yard to spare the mower and piled behind the barn ...

Likewise, oxygen levels in the Mesozoic Era weren't very different from what they are today. So this can't explain the enormous nature of some dinosaurs. Scientists now think the reason dinosaurs were ...

With a foreword by eminent paleontologist Luis Chiappe, Birds of the Mesozoic is a must-have book for bird lovers and anyone interested in paleontology. "Pictorially the book is a paradigm of sensory ...

During the Proterozoic era, oxygen produced by photosynthesizing bacteria collects in the oceans and then in the atmosphere. Iron present in exposed rocks reacts with this oxygen, and rust colors ...

Are we entering the "undetectable era" of plastic surgery? If you've stopped and wondered if there seems to be more celebrities who don't look like they've aged − but who also don't bear any ...