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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prehistoric insects encased in amber reveal a terrifying evolutionary road that dead-ended sometime after the mid-Cretaceous period. After examining multiple roughly 99-million-year-old specimens ...

The heaviest known dinosaur is thought to be Argentinosaurus, a supermassive titanosaur that lived during the Cretaceous ...

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 ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

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

The water hole was surrounded by palm trees and sand dunes during the late Cretaceous period, but since then, the environment has changed drastically. Today, this area is known as the Anacleto ...