This was many millions of years before the first modern humans, Homo sapiens, appeared. Scientists divide the Mesozoic Era into three periods: the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. During this era, ...
The Triassic period stands out in Earth’s history as the time when dinosaurs first evolved. It was followed by the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods – at the end of the latter, the dinosaurs ...
Developed with palaeontologists, animal behaviour experts, biologists and Museum curators, Age of the Dinosaur is a unique journey through the three periods of the Mesozoic era - the Triassic, ...
Began to break up during the Jurassic, split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland. Cretaceous - appearance of angiosperms, establishment in mid-latitudes while Northern Laurasia and Southern Gondwana ...
In fact though, the Jurassic Coast is a confusing name, because along its 95 mile length, there are also younger, Cretaceous and older, Triassic rocks to be seen. The Cretaceous rocks are at the ...
Similar-shaped to dolphins and sharks, ichthyosaurs - often misidentified as ‘swimming dinosaurs’ - swam the seas of the Earth for millions of years during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous ...