The Mesozoic era, meaning “middle life”, is a division of earth’s history spanning from around 252 to 66 million years ago. It is subdivided into the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The beginning of the Mesozoic is characterised by a long phase of recovery following the end Permian mass extinction. The end of the Mesozoic is marked by the Cretaceous/Paleogene extinction event which wiped out the dinosaurs among other groups.
Published on March 16th, 2021 | by Elsa Panciroli
Terrestrial life as we know it couldn’t exist without soil. Soil is a layer of minerals, organic matter, liquids, gasses and organisms that not only provides a medium for plant growth, but also modifies the atmosphere, [&hellip... Read More →
Published on February 1st, 2021 | by David Marshall
When an ammonite loses its shell, what kind of anatomical information can be found lying beneath? With Prof. Christian Klug... Read More →
Published on December 1st, 2020 | by Elsa Panciroli
Dr Kimi Chappelle discusses the growth and development of Massospondylus, a South African sauropodomorph... Read More →
Published on July 31st, 2020 | by David Marshall
Dr Russell Bicknell joins to examine the evolutionary history of the horseshoe crabs... Read More →
Published on June 29th, 2020 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
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Published on March 1st, 2020 | by David Marshall
Plesiosaurs are some of the most easily recognisable animals in the fossil record. Simply uttering the words ‘Loch Ness Monster’ can conjure a reasonably accurate image of what they look like. Thanks to palaeoart, it’s also [&hellip... Read More →
Published on February 7th, 2020 | by Guest Blogger
Mongolia’s ancient underbelly had proved so productive that after suspending fieldwork for one year, the Polish returned in 1967 for another three year stint. This was a smaller scale operation, like in 1963, aimed not at [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 1st, 2020 | by Elsa Panciroli
Herpetology is the study of reptiles, amphibians and caecilians. This includes frogs, salamanders, crocodiles, snakes, lizards and tuatara, to name just a few. These cold-blooded tetrapods have an evolutionary history that reaches back to the Carboniferous. [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 28th, 2019 | by Guest Blogger
Of the many countries around the world that have seen palaeontologists scouring their strata for fossils, Mongolia is one of the most intriguing and inspiring. Landlocked and sandwiched between its neighbouring geographical behemoths, Russia and China, [&hellip... Read More →
Published on November 15th, 2019 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
Australia has many fossils from all ages, including several dinosaurs known exclusively from this time and place. However, they are not well known for their pterosaur fossils, having only a handful of specimens, and up to [&hellip... Read More →
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