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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The majority of Slovakia was covered by water during the Mesozoic era and therefore the probability of finding remains of four-legged animals is very small.
Slovak paleontologist discovers oldest vertebrate in Slovakia
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.
Early diversity found in mammals
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.
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The book proceeds in chronological order via several periods of the Mesozoic era, beginning with a general overview of the world at that time, and then concentrating on locale-specific findings and discoveries.
Dinosaurs of Utah, 2nd Edition
Narrated by Kenneth Branagh, the programme employed state-of-the-art animatronics and computer-generated effects to step back in time to the Mesozoic Era - the so-called Age Of Reptiles.
WALKING WITH DINOSAURS - THE 3D MOVIE
The fossil, which weighs about 15 kilograms (33 lbs), belongs to the second geological period or the Mesozoic Era.
70-million-year-old fossil in Khorasan
The Cenozoic Era is the current and most recent of the three Phanerozoic geological eras, following the Mesozoic Era and covering the period from 66 million years ago to the present.
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We're only going back a decade or three, not to the Mesozoic Era.
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The findings are the first to provide a large-scale body of evidence for the "nocturnal bottleneck theory," which suggests that mammalian sensory traits have been profoundly influenced by an extended period of adaptation to nocturnality during the Mesozoic Era.
Most mammals still retain prehistoric nocturnal life in their eyes
Science & Technology Published: Updated: May 7, 2012 20:11 May 7, 2012 20:25 WASHINGTON: 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.
It's a gas: dinosaur flatulence may have warmed Earth
Major tectonic elements during the Cenozoic and Mesozoic era have shaped the Geological structures that observed in Pakistan today.
THERMOPHILIC BACTERIA FROM THE HOT SPRINGS OF GILGIT (PAKISTAN)

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