Article: The age of reptiles.(READ A TIME LINE)

Article: Mesozoic Era
World of Earth Science;      700+ words ...Mesozoic Era In geologic time , the Mesozoic Era, the second era in the Phanerozoic Eon , spans the time between roughly 250 million years ago (mya) and 65 mya. The Mesozoic Era contains three geologic time periods including ...

Article: PALEONTOLOGISTS DISCOVER NEW MAMMAL FROM MESOZOIC ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... team of American and Chinese paleontologists has discovered a new species of mammal that lived 125 million years ago during the Mesozoic Era, in what is now the Hebei Province in China. The new mammal, documented in the March 15 issue of the ...

Article: Mesozoic era
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      564 words ...Mesozoic era [Gr.,=middle life], major division of geologic time (see Geologic Timescale , table) from 65 to 225 million years ago. Great crustal disturbances that marked the close of the Paleozoic and the beginning of the Mesozoic eras ...

Article: A really long time ago.(By the ...
Appleseeds;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... the end of the Mesozoic Era, dinosaurs "checked ... and 1/2 billion years ago.) To see how ... marker to color the Mesozoic Era section of your ... animals die out! 250 Mesozoic Era (250-65 MYA ... around 100,000 years ago. MYA stands for ...

Article: Crayfish existed in Australia as far back as the Mesozoic ...
The Hindustan Times;  February 7, 2008 ;     564 words ... ... that crayfish existed on the continent as far back as the Mesozoic Era. Martin, a senior lecturer in environmental studies at Emory ... glimpse into the ecology of southern Australia about 115 million years ago, when the continent was still attached to Antarctica ...

Article: Maine volcanoes erupted in Mesozoic Era
Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.;  July 27, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... volcanoes, ancient volcanic rocks are preserved in many parts of Maine, but there have not been any active volcanoes since the Mesozoic Era. An interesting aspect of Maine's bedrock is that it records a wide array of geologic environments that have been present ...

Article: A Window on the Mesozoic Era: DINOSAUR RIDGE, ...
Rocks & Minerals;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... area. Dinosaur Ridge has a history dating back to 1877 and is well known to students of paleontology, but until about ten years ago, familiarity with the site was confined to local geologists and a few long-time area residents. Within the past decade ...