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 ...

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following ...

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'.

The world is experiencing more frequent and intense heat waves, floods, hurricanes, and wildfires due to rising greenhouse gas emissions. The energy sector is one of the largest contributors to ...

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.

This 66-million-year-old fossilized vomit comes from the end of the Cretaceous period when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

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 ...