Jurassic Period – dinosaurs and ferns
A dinosaur skeleton from the Jurassic period How the Jurassic period began When the Jurassic period began, about 199 million years ago, a lot of animals had just become extinct [...]
A dinosaur skeleton from the Jurassic period How the Jurassic period began When the Jurassic period began, about 199 million years ago, a lot of animals had just become extinct [...]
Coelocanth: a fish from the Devonian period When was the Devonian period? Four hundred and sixteen million years ago, when the Silurian period ended and the Devonian period began, most [...]
Dragonfly When was the Carboniferous period? With the end of the Devonian period about 359 million years ago, the Carboniferous period got started. More about the Devonian Quick summary of [...]
History of coal: These are lumps of coal What is coal made of? Most of the coal on Earth formed during the Carboniferous Period about 350 million years ago, when [...]
Fern spores on the underside of a frond When plants like moss first began to grow outside the water, about 540 million years ago, they needed a way to reproduce [...]
Ginkgo trees The first trees Ginkgo trees were the first kind of tree. These first trees on earth appeared during the Permian period, about 270 million years ago. This was during [...]
What are ferns? Ferns growing in a forest When did ferns evolve? The first ferns - the first plants that had leaves - evolved from plants that were more like [...]