Prehistoric time line ... amphibians, and reptiles. Dinosaurs ruled the Earth in the mighty Mesozoic. And 64 million years after dinosaurs went extinct, modern humans emerged in the Cenozoic ...

Fossilised bones are some of the most tangible evidence of a dinosaur, but they aren't the only way to study these prehistoric animals. Preserved footprints, also known as ichnites, are a type of ...

What comes to mind when you think of the prehistoric world? For many, it is dinosaurs, the fierce and powerful stars of the Mesozoic era, which spanned from about 251 to 66 million years ago.

Our brief introduction to dinosaurs reveals a key feature that gave them an advantage over other prehistoric reptiles. Dinosaurs are a group of reptiles that dominated the land for over 140 million ...

This story appears in the October 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a chilly January afternoon, Susannah Maidment stands on the shore of a London lake, staring down a pack of dinosaurs.

While the fossil fuels we use today were formed millions of years ago, their origins lie in microscopic lifeforms rather than prehistoric ... timelines add another layer of evidence against the ...

Now, an international team of scientists has uncovered compelling evidence that may finally settle this prehistoric ... timeline’ for the years leading up to the dinosaur extinction, which ...