Sept. 30 (UPI) --While dinosaurs dominated dry land, a diversity of marine reptiles ruled ancient ocean ecosystems. Using a combination of modern ecological modeling techniques, researchers have for ...

The last two decades of the nineteenth century were exciting times in American paleontology, with disputes over Jurassic dinosaurs between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh appearing in ...

During the Mesozoic Marine Revolution (MMR), increasing predation pressure is thought to have resulted in ecosystem reorganization due to changes in ecospace utilization, richness, and new modes of ...

LAST year, a note was published in Nature 1 which summarized the recommendations of an international colloquium at Luxemburg on the definition of Jurassic stages and added the views of the British ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The Tennessee River is regarded as a trans-Appalachian river that formed on a coastal plain of Pennsylvanian sediments, probably early in the ...

Large butterfly-like insects known as Kalligrammatid lacewings, which fluttered through Eurasian fern- and cycad-filled woodland during the Mesozoic Era, have been extinct for more than 120 million ...