In the Mesozoic Era, there are fossils that represent both extinct groups and modern groups of animals and plants. During the ...

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 ...

Scientists divide the Mesozoic Era into three periods: the Triassic ... This meant that differences between animals or plants found in different areas were minor. The Triassic climate was relatively ...

3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time in ... of the food chain was filled with microscopic plants called phytoplankton; two of the major groups ...

It forms the transition between the late Palaeozoic Era, which was mainly populated by synapsids, or mammal-like reptiles, and the Mesozoic Era ... ferns and a now-extinct group of plants known as the ...

For many, it is dinosaurs, the fierce and powerful stars of the Mesozoic era, which spanned from about ... One hypothesis suggests that mammals co-evolved with plants. Following the fifth mass ...