The plant life of the Cretaceous was quite different to that of ... It's not clear why some dinosaurs and pterosaurs, such as Quetzalcoatlus, got so large during the Cretaceous Period. Some think it ...

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 ... Flowering plants were spreading across the landscape.

Discover more about this prehistoric plant life and how to grow your own small dinosaur garden ... BlueSnap/ Shutterstock The Cretaceous Period, 145 to 66 million years ago, is not only known for the ...

Professor Janis said, "The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that mammals began adapting to terrestrial lifestyles millions of ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.

The life strategy of plants that dominate our forests today may be linked to a massive meteorite that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, according to a new study. At the end of the ...

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber ... visually reminiscent of a Venus flytrap plant. The authors note the abdominal apparatus ...