Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 150 million years. Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans ...

The find came in the fossil-rich outcrops of northeast Mississippi, near Starkville in the Prairie Bluff Formation, according ...

Geologists near Starkville found a bone of a Mosasaurus hoffmannii, one of the biggest species of mosasaurs, which could ...

The Cretaceous Period ended 66 million years ago, according to Britannica. Alamosaurus is believed to have first appeared in North America about 69 million years ago, according to a 2024 ...

They stumbled upon a large vertebra belonging to an Alamosaurus, a long-necked dinosaur that roamed North America during the Cretaceous, a geological period that lasted from about 145 million to ...

This discovery fills a critical gap in our understanding of dinosaur ecosystems during the Late Cretaceous period. For years, paleontologists had puzzled over the absence of a large predator in ...

Beneath the rolling farmlands and sprawling prairies of America’s heartland lies a hidden secret from Earth’s distant past. Millions of years ago, before humans walked the Earth, before even the ...

Today it has one of the most extensive fossil records in Europe, ranging from the late Triassic period to the late Cretaceous, roughly 200 million to 75 million years ago. Fossils were first ...