Then, Weiland tried to convince federal lawmakers to designate the area as a national monument. On October 21, 1922, ...

Discover more about this prehistoric plant life and how to grow your own small ... In among a ground cover of cycads and ferns grew gingkoes and conifers, such as monkey puzzle and cypress trees.

At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the supercontinent Pangaea as rodents scurried at their feet through forests of ferns, cycads, and conifers. At the end of the ...

Crumbling landmasses and inland seas. Sea monsters, sharks, and blood-red plankton. Forests of ferns, cycads, and conifers. Warm, moist, tropical breezes. This was the Jurassic, which took place ...