In fact, during this period, some of the biggest land animals to have ever existed ... The group this plant belongs to was at its most diverse during the Jurassic and Cretaceous. The monkey puzzle ...

The fossil remains of Sarcosuchus imperator—a prehistoric reptile dubbed “SuperCroc”—were uncovered in the Elrhaz Formation ...

During this period, oceans formed as land shifted and broke out of one big supercontinent into smaller ones. 3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and ...

The National Museum of Natural History contains the petrified remains of ancient trees that were once the centerpiece of a ...

Sauropods reached their largest sizes in the ... And mammals now included tree climbers, ground dwellers and even predators of small dinosaurs. Sea levels rose and fell repeatedly during the ...

Cretaceous climate crisis with extreme heat and ocean anoxia led to the extinction of powerful marine predators.

Yet during the mid-Cretaceous, ichthyosaurs ... to analyze how extinctions were distributed in the tree of life. Then, they used the largest sample of 2D and 3D data on marine reptiles ever ...

A fossil from one of the largest ... Cretaceous—Eocene rocks and to retrieve a large vertebra belonging to Alamosaurus, a long-necked dinosaur that lived in North America during the Cretaceous ...

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

The bone was identified as "a large vertebra belonging to Alamosaurus, a long-necked dinosaur that lived in North America during the Cretaceous Period." The Alamosaurus is currently the biggest ...