Spring arrives, and with it, the magnolias. Their enormous pink and white blooms unfurl in many parts of the world, but if you look closely at them, you might see a beetle land on the flowers — not a ...

During this period, oceans formed as land shifted and broke out of one big supercontinent into smaller ones. 3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and ...

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 ...

The first Brachychampsa fossil was discovered in Montana's Hell Creek Formation—an ancient suite of rocks that was laid down near the end of the Cretaceous period. That individual animal lived ...

QUESTION: Are ancient lacewings, which lived during the Cretaceous period, related to the butterfly? No. Ancient lacewings found in fossils from northern China are known as kalligrammatid ...

A new fossil discovery may rewrite Australia’s Cretaceous Period evolutionary history. Paleontologists led by Museums Victoria Research Institute and Monash University uncovered what they believe is ...

The end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago, marked the dramatic extinction of the dinosaurs. Until now, our understanding of this mass extinction has been largely shaped by fossils ...

A set of five fossilised small dinosaur footprints from the Cretaceous period has been discovered in northwest China’s Gansu Province. It is believed to be among the smallest known dinosaur ...