Flowering plants were spreading across the landscape. And mammals sat poised ... more than half the planet's species at the end of the Cretaceous remains a matter of scientific debate.

A newly discovered, long-necked dinosaur is revealing secrets of a bygone era. The dinosaur — called Chadititan calvoi, ...

Giant 20-foot-long raptor dinosaurs once roamed Australia, according to a new study that could rewrite the evolutionary history and hierarchy of predators on the continent. At such a critical moment ...

You might know the Cretaceous Period for big animals such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, or for being the end of the age of dinosaurs. But what was the world like in the millions of years ...

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One of the Victorian carcharodontosaur shinbones was found on the Otway Coast. The other was found on the Bass Coast, in rocks nearly 10 million years older. This demonstrates these predators were ...

This was the Early Cretaceous, and lush forests filled with dinosaurs dominated the landscape. We still find traces of these animals in Victoria's fossil record. Most of the dinosaur fossils found ...