Sea monsters, sharks, and blood-red plankton. Forests of ferns, cycads, and conifers. Warm, moist, tropical breezes. This was the Jurassic, which took place 199 to 145 million years ago.
At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the supercontinent Pangaea as rodents scurried at their feet through forests of ferns, cycads, and conifers. At the end of the ...
Albeit one hauntingly alien. As the Devonian gave way into the Carboniferous, plants we might vaguely recognize as conifers, ...
The Fossil Forest in Dorset is a stretch of southern English coastline peppered with living mounds of limestone that hide the remains of cypress trees from the late Jurassic period.
Ancient species of conifers, tree ferns, and cycads had sprouted on what was now the southern coast of England as the ocean retreated. Flowering plants had not evolved yet at this point of time in ...