There were no flowering plants in the Jurassic Period. Conifers (a modern variety of which is shown above) were the commonest trees of the period. It was during the Jurassic period that dinosaurs became the dominant large land animals. These fearsome reptiles rose to power after a cataclysmic...
How long ago was the early Triassic Period? Was the Jurassic Period before the Triassic? When did the Triassic-Jurassic extinction occur? Was the Triassic before the Jurassic Period? When were dinosaurs alive? What came after the Triassic Period? How long ago was the late Triassic Period? How...
When did the Jurassic period end? When did hominins diverge from great apes? When was Sue the dinosaur found? Were sauropods dinosaurs? When did the first marsupials appear? When did zoology become a field? When was the raptor dinosaur discovered?
From an early age, Ara loved watching the cows in the green fields in her village every day. When she was ten, she asked her parents if they could1a cow.Her father thought it would take much work and suggested learning about c...
“Ultimately, the demise of dinosaurs was a 6-mile wide asteroid known as the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. Temperatures began to plummet because a dust cloud blocked the sun.” The Dinosaur Era: When Dinosaurs Dominated The Dinosaur Era is a time period when dinosaurs dominated the Ear...
What was before dinosaurs? The age immediately prior to the dinosaurs was calledthe Permian. Although there were amphibious reptiles, early versions of the dinosaurs, the dominant life form was the trilobite, visually somewhere between a wood louse and an armadillo. In their heyday there were 15...
One of the technologies that came out of WWII wasENIAC, which led to theIBM/360 mainframesof the early 1960s. These computers were still huge and complex, but compared to ENIAC, quite manageable. They were a technological leap forward and inexpensive enough to become part of most university ...
Here we present a new kinematic reconstruction of the Scotia Sea region since the Early Jurassic (182 Ma). The aim of this study was to assess when and why subduction initiated that led to the formation of the South Sandwich subduction zone, and to explain the overriding plate position of ...
The goal was two in one day. I had done some tough hikes but hadn’t yet attempted two trails in a 24 hour span. Early on in the 48 endeavor I had flagged on my map that the Osceolas and Moosilauke trail heads were a short drive apart. I decided to tackle them back to back. ...
The goal was two in one day. I had done some tough hikes but hadn’t yet attempted two trails in a 24 hour span. Early on in the 48 endeavor I had flagged on my map that the Osceolas and Moosilauke trail heads were a short drive apart. I decided to tackle them back to back. ...