A unique parasitic wasp from 99 million years ago, preserved in Cretaceous period amber, featured a Venus flytrap-like ...

However, the hind wings aren’t its only striking features. S. charybdis appears to have evolved a unique, three-flapped ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

Dinosaur bones have taught us a great deal about these animals from the "age of dinosaurs," the Mesozoic Era, which stretched from approximately ... from the very beginning of the Cretaceous period ...

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

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