further support that “small ornithischian dinosaurs achieved a global distribution by the beginning of the Jurassic Period,” ...

Opalized ammonite fossils are some of the most unique and spectacular paleontological specimens. They were formed through a geological process known as opalization, wherein organic material from ...

Fossils of them are found all around the world ... with larger sizes more common from the Late Jurassic onwards. The largest known species of ammonite is Parapuzosia seppenradensis from the Late ...

Typically spherical, they contain black-coloured ammonite fossils from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. In Chinese folklore, ammonites were called Jiaoshih or horn stones, as they resemble coiled ...

A fossil that was first discovered over 50 years ago has finally been identified as a dinosaur that lived around 166 million ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with ... that birds lived alongside dinosaurs during the Jurassic Period. The finding helps scientists answer ...

Palaeontologists have now retrieved the fossil and had a chance to study it. Getting the fossil out of the rocks and into the lab was a big challenge. Its cliff face location was thought to be too ...

A remarkable Early Jurassic record has been hiding ... also analyzed two other instances of trace fossils that were found in unexpected locations. They found that a 2,000-kilogram (about 4,400 ...