Mesozoic era


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Mesozoic era

the geological era that began 225 million years ago and lasted about 155 million years. The era includes the CRETACEOUS PERIOD, JURASSIC PERIOD, and TRIASSIC PERIOD. During this era GYMNOSPERMS became dominant plants, dinosaurs became the dominant animals, reptiles (Pterosaurs) conquered the air, and birds and mammals evolved.
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During the Mesozoic era, the valley was full of trees that produced resin, a gooey substance that oozes out of the tree bark.
Scientist find bird foot with extremely long toe
? Dinosaurs lived between about 247 and 66 million years ago, during the Mesozoic Era.
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The skeleton was hidden in a cave.Until now, four-legged animals from the Mesozoic era, the dinosaur age, were not known to be in the area of Slovakia.
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NYT Syndicate The Mesozoic Era, from 252 million years ago to 66 million years ago, is often called the Age of Dinosaurs.
When dinosaurs ruled the earth, mammals took to the skies
It was found in diamond-rich sands dating back to the Mesozoic era from about 252 to 66 million years ago.
Dinosaurus Rex; Dog-size mummy dug up in Siberia
The slopes are made of bluish shale covered by a layer of bulky bluish limestone blocks created during the Mesozoic Era. They are up to 1,000 meters high and very steep.
Demir Kapija--the gorge's iron door
I walked through the Mesozoic Era and learned about the slow evolution of various species long before mammals were part of the picture.
An ancient path
She points out that during the Mesozoic era, which started about 251 million years ago, ancestors of birds and crocodilians diversified into a great variety of forms.
Bird breath
Dinosaur dung is found only in rock that formed during the Mesozoic era, between 225 million and 66 million years ago.
Dung detective: Karen Chin uses preserved poop to uncover dues about the ancient world
Early mammals once were thought to have limited ecological opportunities to diversify during the dinosaur-dominated Mesozoic era. However, Agilodocodon, Docofossor, and numerous other fossils--including Castorocauda, a swimming, fish-eating mammaliaform described by Luo and colleagues in 2006--provide strong evidence that ancestral mammals adapted to wide-ranging environments despite competition from dinosaurs.
Early diversity found in mammals
Jurassic is correct, and DJ Pat tells us that the other two are "Triassic'' and "Cretaceous.'' We are bummed out and our slide continues (Note: I just looked this up on Wikipedia and saw that the Mesozoic Era featured dinosaurs like Megalosaurus.
The return of 'Ugly Tuna'

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