Previous research revealed that a purported cocoa plant was part of a marine reptile jaw, while an assumed Cretaceous fruit was just a banana-shaped rock, according to the study.

3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and tone of life on Earth. At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the ...

"In the Antarctic circle, it has been proposed that Cretaceous [Victoria] experienced long periods of dark/light that the poles experience today," Kotevski said. "Thick forests lined this fast ...