Known today as the “Black Belt,” the southeastern United States was once covered by an ancient sea—one that continues to ...

3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and tone of life on Earth. At the start of the period ... long-necked and toothy marine reptiles terrorized ...

Namely, a group of primitive amphibians called the temnospondyls. They may have survived the Great Dying by feeding on some ...

You might know the Cretaceous ... Period, we don't see much evidence of them in the fossil record at the start of the Cretaceous. However, by the end of the Cretaceous, angiosperms made up a much more ...

“You wouldn’t have lasted long, I don’t think, as a puny human swimming around in this ocean,” muses paleontologist and geologist James Witts while viewing an artist’s depiction of marine life during ...

Read more: These 12 Prehistoric Sea Animals Are Pure Nightmare Fuel The landscape of Tennessee during the Cretaceous period was unrecognizable ... and flat plains. Marine life -- including ...

Amanda has a master's in marine science from Moss Landing Marine Laboratories ... it triggered a cascade of events that caused the death of three quarters of all life on Earth. Such is the conclusion ...

Biodiversity was booming in the early Cretaceous Period, and not just among dinosaurs. The oceans also teemed with life, including ... where bus-length marine reptiles like pliosaurs preyed ...

This unique find provides insights into prehistoric marine life and the relationships within the ancient food chain during the Cretaceous era. Fossils from the age of dinosaurs are an ...