At the end of the Cretaceous, the duck-billed hadrosaurs were the most advanced herbivores on Earth. New research has revealed just how voracious these dinosaurs were, with their average tooth ...

But lichens and probably horsetails still survived. And in this dark landscape, ... All told, the Arctic in the cretaceous period was a rough place to live, especially in winter.

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 supercontinent Pangaea ...

Non-bird dinosaurs lived between about 245 and 66 million years ago, in a time known as the Mesozoic Era. This was many millions of years before the first modern humans, Homo sapiens, appeared..

In the late Cretaceous, dinosaurs ruled the earth. They were the most diverse and widespread land animals on the planet. “Most major terrestrial niches were occupied by dinosaurs, particularly toward ...

This allowed the scientists to create a timeline of nearly 2 million years at the end of the Cretaceous - with a resolution of 100,000 years - representing the period right before extinction.

Exquisitely preserved fossils of a shark that thrived during the Cretaceous period appear to solve a long-standing mystery around how it hunted and where it fits into the shark evolutionary tree ...

“In fact, until the Late Cretaceous, horsetails, ferns and conifers would be much more common for dinosaurs looking for something to eat.” “As it’s very difficult to disentangle the plant and dinosaur ...