Jurassic

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Yi: Beast of the Week

 This week we will be checking out a dinosaur that was so unusual, it completely changed what we thought we knew about dinosaur evolution.  Check out Yi qi! (pronounced "EE-chee")Yi was a small theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Hebei, in Northeastern China during the late Jurassic period, about 159 million years ago.  From snout to tail it only measured about a foot (30 cm) long and its wingspan was about 2 feet (60cm) wide.  The genus came, "Yi" translates from Mandarin to "wing" and

21/06/2026 prehistoricbeastoftheweek

He was believed to be king of the oceans in the Jurassic: a pierced vertebra recounts a fight of extreme violence

Forgotten for more than a century in the drawers of a museum, a fossil has now resurfaced and recounts a scene of extreme violence in the Jurassic oceans. An ichthyosaur vertebra, marked by the impact of a broken tooth, perhaps reveals the attack of one of the most formidable...

17/06/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated

Could a Cetiosaurus Have Left the Longest Sauropod Trackway?

Recently, we published a post highlighting the on-going research into the remarkable Oxfordshire "dinosaur highway".  A limestone quarry preserves the remains of numerous dinosaur tracks.  The tracks are preserved in strata laid down in the Middle Jurassic.  Palaeontologists estimate that the trackways are around 166 million years old (Bathonian faunal stage).  In a recent radio

14/06/2026 everythingdinosaur

Oxfordshire Dinosaur Trackway Could Be the Longest Sauropod Trackway Known

Scientists studying the famous Oxfordshire "dinosaur highway" have announced that one of the giant trackways may represent the longest known sauropod trackway discovered anywhere in the world. The remarkable sequence of footprints, uncovered at Dewars Farm Quarry, could have been made by a single Cetiosaurus as it wandered across a Jurassic mudflat around 166 million

11/06/2026 everythingdinosaur

New Jurassic Pterosaur Unearthed in Germany

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of early monofenestratan pterosaur based on a nearly complete and well-preserved fossil skeleton discovered in Bavaria, Germany. The post New Jurassic Pterosaur Unearthed in Germany appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

19/05/2026 sci-news

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Mesozoic Era

Early Jurassic

201.4000 – 174.7000

Middle Jurassic

174.7000 – 161.5000

Late Jurassic

161.5000 – 143.1000