The plant life of the Cretaceous was quite different to that of today ... the southern hemisphere saw its largest reptiles. In fact, during this period, some of the biggest land animals to have ever ...

Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction thanks to their lifestyle.

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 ...

3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and tone of life on Earth. At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the ...

The first Brachychampsa fossil was discovered in Montana's Hell Creek Formation—an ancient suite of rocks that was laid down near the end of the Cretaceous period. That individual animal lived ...

Long before the asteroid hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, many mammals had already started living on the ground, according to new research led by the University of Bristol. This surprising ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period ... ever animal may have been ...

ULAANBAATAR: A previously unknown species of ancient mammal that lived alongside dinosaurs during the Cretaceous period ... This fast-moving, small-bodied animal has been named “Ravjaa ishii”.