Tag: Jurassic

Two newly described species of the predatory Jurassic fish genus Thrissops from Bavaria and Dorset reveal the diversity of the ...

A Late Jurassic fossil from southeastern China reveals a flightless early bird with markedly short forelimbs, showing that the first ...

A newly discovered Middle Jurassic mammaliaform from China preserves bony evidence that the anatomical machinery for suckling and swallowing evolved ...

For more than a century, the story of the whip-tailed, long-necked dinosaurs known as diplodocoids seemed settled: they flourished in ...

A detailed palynofacies and sequence-stratigraphic study of the Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation in Patagonia shows that alternating wet and dry ...

A 165-million-year-old fossil from Inner Mongolia reveals that the soft palate and swallowing machinery central to mammalian evolution were already ...

A new analysis of ancient sea-level patterns reveals four episodes of rapid true polar wander over the past 320 million ...

Fossilised vomit pellets recovered from Jurassic delta deposits off Norway indicate that plesiosaurs hunted shellfish in deeper water and swam ...

A newly named Jurassic belemnite from Wyoming is the thickest ever recorded and belonged to a family thought to have ...