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

It lasted a long time, nearly 80 million years, making it the longest geological period of the Phanerozoic Eon, which began some 539 million years ago. The Cretaceous is split into two smaller time ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

Dinosaurs have captured people's imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by ...

Learn about the time period that took place 65 to 23 million ... in the absence of the giant mosasaurs and plesiosaurs of the Cretaceous. Squid and other soft-bodied cephalopods replaced their ...

A set of five fossilised small dinosaur footprints from the Cretaceous period has been discovered in northwest China’s Gansu Province. It is believed to be among the smallest known dinosaur ...

Discover what the prehistoric world was like and how it changed between when dinosaurs first appeared and the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Non-bird dinosaurs lived between ...

Exquisitely preserved fossils of a shark that thrived during the Cretaceous period appear to solve a long ... between 4.6 and ...

QUESTION: Are ancient lacewings, which lived during the Cretaceous period, related to the butterfly ... In present-day Morocco, Nekor was, at the time, considered one of the greatest centres ...

The Carcharodontosaurus was another species of therapod that lived in the Cretaceous period. Overseas fossils have showed it could grow up to thirteen metres in length about the same size as a T-Rex.

Scientists have discovered South Africa’s youngest known dinosaur tracks along the remote coastline of the Western Cape. The newly identified footprints, estimated to be around 140 million years old, ...