Finally, there is the Cenozoic Era, which began 66 million years ago and in which we live today. The Mesozoic Era can be subdivided into three periods, namely the Triassic, the Jurassic, and the ...

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.

Photo: Courtesy of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences The North China Craton destructed during the Early Cretaceous formed numerous small ...

The researchers then estimated the likelihood of each of the dinosaur clades occupying the different grid cells at four time points within the final 18 million years of the Cretaceous period.

Instead, poor fossilization conditions and unexposed late Cretaceous rock layers mean they're either not preserved or hard to find.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The perceived decline of dinosaurs before the asteroid impact 66 million years ago may be due to a poor fossil record rather than an actual decrease in species ...

My husband gave me the microscope, aware of my growing obsession with the small—an interest sparked by my introduction to foraminifera (forams for short), single-celled organisms of an ancient ...

The series is a sequel to Camp Cretaceous, picking up with the same core cast of characters several years later, as they navigate a dangerous new reality in which dinosaurs and humans live side-by ...

About 66 million years ago, scientists believe, a city-size asteroid crashed into Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, precipitating a series of worldwide catastrophes: a massive earthquake, landslides ...

When the asteroid arrived at the end of the Cretaceous period, the dinosaurs disappeared. But they weren’t the only creatures that were affected. “Tree dwelling mammals struggled after the asteroid ...

S. charybdis lived 98.79 million years ago, during the mid-Cretaceous period, in what is today Myanmar, according to the international research team from China and Denmark. "The rounded abdominal ...