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 ...

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

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 new study finds that one of the hottest periods in Earth’s history may have ... lampreys around 93 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period. “We do know that during this time period ...

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

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 ...