A remarkable Early Jurassic record has been hiding in plain sight for 20 years on a slab of rock displayed at a high school in Biloela, Australia, according to a new study. While researchers knew the ...

A new dinosaur species from the early Jurassic period was discovered in southwestern China, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal eLife. Scientists originally found remains of an ...

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 ...

The heyday of dinosaurs, the Jurassic era saw Earth’s climate change from hot and dry to humid and subtropical. The Jurassic period was characterized by a warm, wet climate that gave rise to lush ...

In February 2021 Joe Davis, a conservation team leader at the Rutland Water Nature Reserve in Great Britain, stumbled upon something that, at first, seemed like a series of rocks or pipes. Davis, ...

After making a splash in early 2025 with the identification of its 183-million-year-old fossilized skin, the plesiosaur fossil MH7 (Holzmaden specimen), uncovered in Germany, is making headlines again ...

Scientists described two fossilized birds from the Jurassic period in a recent article published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, marking a "historic" discovery. Unearthed in the Zhenghe region of ...

There's a real Jurassic park right here in the U.S., but it's nothing like the books or films. Dinosaur National Monument's dinosaurs died millions of years ago, but they left behind a treasure trove ...

Evolution secrets of reptiles have been revealed by a 240-million-year-old snake ancestor uncovered in Scotland. Paleontologists from across Europe uncovered a near-complete skeleton of an early ...

Many dinosaurs in the movies existed millions of years apart in real life. The final installment in the "Jurassic Park" series hits theaters Thursday, 29 years after the first movie stomped on the big ...

LONDON — The fossil of a 170 million-year-old pterosaur, described as the world's best-preserved skeleton of the prehistoric winged reptile, has been found on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, scientists ...

My family has spent the last 308 days together in the house. What’s another 60 minutes in the car? This was my reasoning when I scheduled us a slot at the drive-through attraction “Jurassic Quest” at ...