The Mesozoic era saw the rise of some of the most iconic animals, from Tyrannosaurus rex to birds and mammals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

Ocean life was devastated by a deadly land-sea “tag team” 100 million years ago, reveals new research. A string of catastrophic environmental events triggered "mass extinctions" of marine ...

A pilot to digitise all British Mesozoic vertebrate specimens held at the Museum. We are digitising our country’s amazing collection of dinosaurs, flying reptiles, prehistoric fish, sharks and ...

In a major new climate finding, researchers have calculated that dinosaur flatulence could have put enough methane into the atmosphere to warm the planet during the hot, wet Mesozoic era.

Zebra finches are passerine birds, but their phylogenetic relationship with non-passerine birds remains controversial. By examining retroposon insertion loci in avian genomes, the authors reveal ...

The Mesozoic era, of the age of dinosaurs, is divided into three time periods — Triassic (245-208 million years ago), Jurassic (208-146 million years ago), and Cretaceous (146-65 million years ago).