The Cretaceous is a geological period that began 145 million years ago and ended 66 million years ago. It is the last period in the Mesozoic Era. It comes after the Jurassic Period and before the ...

3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous ... the end of the period 65 million years ago. In fact, the land, seas, and skies would never be the same in the new era that dawned ...

In a wind-swept stretch of Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains, paleontologists digging through Jurassic-era stone have ...

Jurassic and Cretaceous. During this era, the land gradually split from one huge supercontinent into smaller ones. The associated changes in the climate and vegetation affected how dinosaurs evolved.

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

Learn about the time period that took place 65 to 23 million years ago. 3 min read At the dawn of the Paleogene—the beginning of the Cenozoic era—dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and giant marine ...

They first appeared around 240 million to 230 million years ago in the Triassic Period, and went extinct around 66 million ...

Křída is another one of those humble Czech words with a Roman origin. It goes all the way to Latin crēta, which likewise ...

This dinosaur, which lived during the late Cretaceous period, is part of the sauropod family ... Digging up Montouliers: A ...

Scientists have discovered South Africa’s youngest known dinosaur tracks along the remote coastline of the Western Cape. The newly identified footprints, estimated to be around 140 million years old, ...