Nitrogen fixing bacteria may have helped some cycads survive to the present day DURHAM, N.C. -- Once a favored food of grazing dinosaurs, an ancient lineage of plants called cycads helped sustain ...

3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time in ... of the food chain was filled with microscopic plants called phytoplankton; two of the major groups ...

This article examines the fastest dinosaurs from the Mesozoic era, exploring their anatomical ... feeding on small animals and possibly plants. Megalosaurus, the first known dinosaur, was a ...

For many, it is dinosaurs, the fierce and powerful stars of the Mesozoic era, which spanned from about ... One hypothesis suggests that mammals co-evolved with plants. Following the fifth mass ...