Known today as the “Black Belt,” the southeastern United States was once covered by an ancient sea—one that continues to ...
The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...
The chalky find contains portion of sea lilies likely consumed by a fish predator from the Cretaceous era. The fossil was discovered at Stevns Klint—a UNESCO-listed coastal cliff in Denmark ...
These fragments turned out to be fossilized remains of sea lilies—marine creatures that thrived during the Cretaceous period. Paleontologist Jesper Milàn expressed his excitement over the ...
He then brought his find to a museum where it was cleaned and examined by Dutch sea lily expert John Jagt. Researchers dated the fossil animal regurgitate to the end of the Cretaceous era nearly ...
Victoria was positioned within the Antarctic Circle, separated from Tasmania by a vast rift valley rather than open sea. This was the Early Cretaceous, and lush forests filled with dinosaurs ...