Miners Looking for Ammonite Stumble on Rare Complete Fossils of 'Ocean Predators' From 100 Million Years Ago Evidence of ...

The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs for company. Credit: Mark ...

Ammonite fossil collection. Image by jonnysek via Depositphotos ... this discovery is one of the most significant paleontological findings in Italy! Tyrannosaurus from the Cretaceous era. Image by ...

It’s a story of how the geology of the Cretaceous Period, between 70 and 100 Million years ago, emphatically changed the course of American history. Where the South as we know it began About 80 ...

"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 ...

While DNA studies consistently suggest that modern birds originated during the Late Cretaceous period, fossil evidence from this crucial time has been frustratingly scarce. As study lead author ...

Here, a detailed three-dimensional reconstruction of the skull of the Early Cretaceous enantiornithine Yuanchuavis kompsosoura allows for its in-depth description, including elements that are poorly ...