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 ...

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 ...

SNSB and LMU Paleontologists have identified a new species of predatory dinosaur from the Cretaceous period in North Africa ... Kellermann evaluated the new images together with dinosaur ...

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 ...

which are remnants of large volcanoes thought to have contributed to the mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period. The model also revealed that the Chicxulub impact, when the ...

Maximilian Kellermann, first author of the corresponding paper, says, "What we saw in the historical images surprised ... predatory dinosaur from the Cretaceous period from photographs of Egyptian ...

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 ...