Geologists recently discovered the fossil of a Cretaceous-era mosasaur vertebra near Starkville, Mississippi. The experts ...

You might know the Cretaceous Period for big animals such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, or for being the end of the age of dinosaurs. But what was the world like in the millions of years ...

Explore the age of the dinosaurs. 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 ...

In Big Bend National Park in Texas, geology students uncovered a rare fossil belonging to one of North America's largest ...

The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less diverse ...

Researchers may have discovered Mississippi's largest ever mosasaur after pulling a Cretaceous-aged fossil out of a riverbed ...

The study, published in Current Biology, analysed the fossil record of North America in the 18 million years up to the asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period (between 66 and 84 million ...

Scientists know dinosaurs ceased to exist at the end of the Cretaceous period, but the details surrounding their vanishing act are a bit fuzzy. Some computer models suggest that a volcano ...

The tiny insect, fossilized in a chunk of limestone in Brazil, is the oldest known ant specimen ever identified. Even better, ...

The end-Cretaceous extinction—the massive extinction event widely attributed to an asteroid impact that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs approximately 66 million years ago—had a profound ...

ULAANBAATAR: A previously unknown species of ancient mammal that lived alongside dinosaurs during the Cretaceous period, about 90 million years ago, has been recorded for the first time in Mongolia.

A rare fossil unearthed in Mongolia's Gobi Desert has led to the identification of a new dinosaur species Duonychus tsogtbaatari. Dinosaurs from the Cretaceous. A biological rule that lasted ...