Riley Black’s new book, When the Earth was Green, uses the latest research to envision the ancient worlds of our favorite prehistoric animals.

The plant life of the Cretaceous was quite different to that ... Cycads and Bennettitales were at their most diverse during the Mesozoic Era. This fossil trunk of a Bennettitales shrub is more than 50 ...

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 ...