Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

In 1992, a paleontologist unearthed the fossil of a prehistoric bird called "Vegavis iaai" in Antarctica and hypothesized that it was an early relative of today's ducks and geese. However, because the ...

The scientific term for fossilized vomit is regurgitalite. Surprisingly, the timeless throw up is far from the oldest out ...

Biodiversity was booming in the early Cretaceous Period, and not just among dinosaurs. The oceans also teemed with life, ...

About 76 million years ago, a juvenile of one of the largest flying creatures in Earth's history, called Cryodrakon boreas, walked along a riverbank on a lush coastal plain and lowered its toothless ...

Scientists have discovered a new Cretaceous-era dinosaur species by examining photos of a fossil lost during an allied air ...

A marine animal snacked on some sea lilies that did not agree with its stomach—and we now know what happened next ...

during the Cretaceous period. "We do know that during this time period, average temperatures globally were about 82 F (28.1 C), and the average tropical temperature was 93.5 F (34.2 C)," Hughes says.

In 2021, scientists identified a new mosasaur species upon the discovery of a Cretaceous-period jaw with unusual teeth in a Moroccan mine. There’s only one problem—the remains may have been ...

In the Cretaceous period, a shark or another kind of fish found sea lilies less than digestible. What you might expect followed. By Victor Mather Let’s be candid here. Vomit is something you ...

In their study, McGill researchers reconstructed an ancient ecosystem network for all known animal fossils in a single geological ... which included the Cretaceous period, was marked by rising ...