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 ...

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.

A new study finds that one of the hottest periods in Earth's history may have driven lampreys apart—genetically speaking. The ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It revealed marked seasonal temperature differences and periodic glacial melt events during ... Cretaceous period - an era dominated by dinosaurs and characterized by a greenhouse climate - Earth ...

In fact, both lived during the late Cretaceous period with this podiatrically-endowed dino existing between 66 million and 72 million years ago. The prehistoric Sasquatch’s walk outline was ...