Nitrogen fixing bacteria may have helped some cycads survive to the present day DURHAM, N.C. -- Once a favored food of grazing dinosaurs, an ancient lineage of plants called cycads helped sustain ...

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 ...

A scientific illustration of an ancient insect creating gall-like structures on an extinct Jurassic plant, Anomozamites sinensis, of the Mesozoic Era. One of these galls is enlarged to show 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 ...

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 ...