You might know the Cretaceous Period for big animals such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, or for being the end of the age of dinosaurs. But what was the world like in the millions of years ...

During this period, oceans formed as land shifted and broke out of one big supercontinent into smaller ones. 3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and ...

Maximilian Kellermann, first author of the corresponding paper, says, "What we saw in the historical images surprised ...

this famous carnivore dominated the forested river valleys in western North America during the late Cretaceous period, 68 million years ago. Although T. rex is a household name, what we know about ...

They first appeared around 240 million to 230 million years ago in the Triassic Period, and went extinct around 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, when a massive asteroid ...

Wight Coast Fossils shared images of the footprint on Instagram ... The Wessex Formation, in particular, dates back to the ...

which are remnants of large volcanoes thought to have contributed to the mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period. The model also revealed that the Chicxulub impact, when the ...

A set of five fossilised small dinosaur footprints from the Cretaceous period has been discovered in northwest China’s Gansu Province. It is believed to be among the smallest known dinosaur ...