Long before the carnage began, the Cretaceous picked up where the Jurassic left off: Gigantic sauropods led parades of dinosaurs through the forests, over the plains, and along the coasts ...

The plant life of the Cretaceous was quite different to that of today. For example, temperate rainforest grew close to the poles, which back then were ice free. 'We have evidence from West Antarctica ...

Scientists knew the mudstone had formed in the mid-Cretaceous, 92 to 83 million years ago. The amber proved that a wet, swampy forest existed in the South Polar Region only 90 million years ago.

The finds of vertebrate remains in the deposits of the Early Cretaceous in Yakutia added another location to the polar areas where those animals had lived. In 2017-2019, scientists from St ...

Those years are known as the Cretaceous period ... and in the lowlands, tropical forests harboured rivers and creeks, marshes and wetlands. The expansive sea would have absorbed heat in the ...