A fossil from British Columbia, originally discovered in the 80s, has finally been identified as a new species named ...

Back then Earth was a lot warmer than it is today and there was ... It's not clear why some dinosaurs and pterosaurs, such as Quetzalcoatlus, got so large during the Cretaceous Period. Some think it ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

When the asteroid collided with Earth, its impact would have triggered ... the world was a warmer place during the Cretaceous period than it is today, according to Climate Policy Watcher.

Dinosaurs roamed Earth for millions of years, during a major geologic era known as the Mesozoic ... well-known Jurassic period and comes to a dramatic end in the late Cretaceous period. Discover how ...

A major collection of more than 50 bird fossils found in northern Alaska suggest some ancient ancestors of modern birds ...

Geologists find giant mosasaur vertebra in Mississippi, a marine predator that ruled the seas 66 million years ago, ...

Nearly 66 million years ago, a large asteroid hit Earth and contributed to the ... lived around the world at the end of the Cretaceous period just before their extinction. However, scientists ...

A newly identified dinosaur has stirred attention among paleontologists worldwide. It lived about 94 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous epoch and has been hailed as the earliest known ...

This time, 80% of the Earth's species died off ... 80% of the time) lived during the Cretaceous Period. During this time, sauropods grew to their largest size and many of the dinosaurs we know ...

Contrary to our widely held picture of the Late Cretaceous as "hot everywhere," he said, there's evidence that polar ice existed during that period ... plumed upward from Earth's interior ...