During this period, oceans formed ... But as the continents spread, the ocean currents churned with ever more vigor. After a temperature spike in the mid-Cretaceous, the climate began to cool ...

and the fossils within it can tell us about the creatures that lived in the ocean. But it also means scientists have less of an understanding of the plants and land animals that lived in Britain at ...

Across opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean more than 3,700 miles apart ... are believed to be part of the Early Cretaceous period, according to a study published Monday by the New Mexico Museum ...

Guy Plint, a professor emeritus of earth sciences at Western University, joined London Morning to talk about identifying ...

Those years are known as the Cretaceous period, the longest portion of the ... connecting the Arctic Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico. It essentially cut the continent in two, separating two large ...

As continents heaved upward, pushed by the movement of tectonic plates, ocean currents were redirected ... years leading up to the end of the Cretaceous. Sea Level The presence of 65- to 70 ...

This was the birth of the North Atlantic Ocean. Coelophysis lived towards the end of the ... Sea levels rose and fell repeatedly during the Cretaceous Period. At the highest point there were many ...

The findings offer a new insight into the extreme forces unleashed by the tsunami that followed the Chicxulub asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ... before dropping ...