Plate tectonics had arranged the world's continents into a single massive landmasses: Pangaea. Today I attempt to use my knowledge of geography to create a basic map of what this land might have ...

Contenders for the true first birds have now been found in Chinese rocks dating from the late Jurassic, around 149 million years ago. If accepted as birds, as the scientists who described them think ...

The world’s oldest map, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, may reveal the location of an […] ...

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

Some 12 miles east of Norwich, Reedham’s church of St John the Baptist has a distinctive appearance, dominated by reused ...

Researchers predict that a collision with the asteroid Bennu would plunge Earth into a year's long 'impact winter'.

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the ... in deep time is a topic of ...

They focused on the Jurassic (200-143 million years ago) and Cretaceous (143-66 million years ago) periods, a time when these species thrived in diverse environments. The evolution of sharks and rays ...

some of the world’s oldest vomit. The pile of 66-million-year-old, fossilized, regurgitated sea lilies was dated to the Cretaceous era. Indigestion, it seems, spans the furthest reaches of time.

Mr Bennicke took the fragments to be examined at the Museum of East Zealand, which confirmed the vomit could be dated to the end of the Cretaceous period 66 million ... "This is the world's most ...

They were eaten during the Cretaceous period tens of millions of years ago. Fossil hunter Peter Bennicke made the discovery after splitting open a piece of chalk. He brought the fossil to a local ...

On Monday, Google said it would update its maps to display Gulf of America as ... Users elsewhere in the world will see both names side by side, the company said in what it described as a ...