The Cretaceous is a geological period that began 145 million years ago and ended 66 million years ago. It is the last period in the Mesozoic Era. It comes after the Jurassic Period and before the ...

During this period, oceans formed as land shifted ... and skies would never be the same in the new era that dawned after the close of the Mesozoic era.

A discovery about the dark fur of early mammals confirms long-held theories about their evolutionary and ecological behavior.

Scientists divide the Mesozoic Era into three periods ... Sea levels rose and fell repeatedly during the Cretaceous Period. At the highest point there were many shallow seas separating parts of the ...

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

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, according to a study published in Nature. The remains were first discovered ...

Chinese researchers have discovered a rare fossil of a previously unknown species of venomous scorpion that lived around 125 ...

A newly discovered scorpion fossil, Jeholia longchengi, reveals insights into China’s Early Cretaceous ecosystem.

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, ...

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

Dinosaur bones have taught us a great deal about these animals from the "age of dinosaurs," the Mesozoic Era, which stretched ... from the very beginning of the Cretaceous period when the African ...