As these continents further divided, what we now call the Atlantic Ocean also started to form. The climate during the ...

During this period, Earth's climate changed from hot and dry to ... Warm, moist, tropical breezes. This was the Jurassic, which took place 199 to 145 million years ago. At the start of the period ...

It’s possible that the release of huge amounts of sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide significantly disrupted Earth’s climate ... During the start of the Jurassic, ocean levels were lower than they are ...

A period of abrupt warming during an otherwise cold climate characteristic of the last Ice Age Dansgaard-Oeschger Cycles: Periods of rapid climate variability that occurred throughout the last Ice ...

Jurassic and Cretaceous. During this era, the land gradually split from one huge supercontinent into smaller ones. The associated changes in the climate and vegetation affected how dinosaurs evolved.

By the start of the Jurassic period, dinosaurs had taken over as the dominant animals in their ecosystems. According to the ...

The climate during the Jurassic Period was warmer than it is today and is often described as having tropical greenhouse-like conditions. There was no ice at the North and South Poles. Sea levels ...