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.

Biodiversity was booming in the early Cretaceous Period, and not just among dinosaurs. The oceans also teemed with life, including some monstrous predators unlike anything alive today. In a new study, ...

The Early Cretaceous period was a significant time for the evolution of Gnetales, a group of seed plants that includes modern genera such as Ephedra, Gnetum, and Welwitschia. Recent research has ...

A strange layer in the fossil record contains evidence that fern populations exploded following the mass extinction that ended the Cretaceous period ... plants inside include angiosperms, gymnosperms, ...

Discover more about this prehistoric plant life and how to grow your own small dinosaur garden ... Come and see this unlikely survivor of ancient forests in our grounds. The Cretaceous Period, 145 to ...

That dramatic change represents one of the great moments in the history of life on the planet. What allowed flowering plants to dominate ... just before the Cretaceous period ended.

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following ...

The Late Cretaceous period was 100.5-66 million years ago during ... They would live in the underbrush, working to avoid dinosaurs and eat plants as well as any scraps of meat they could find.

They recovered a well-preserved hip bone (sacrum) of an Edmontosaurus dinosaur from the Hell Creek Formation in South Dakota. This formation dates back to the late Cretaceous period, suggesting this ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near ... where is Vegavis perched in the bird tree of life?" Vegavis was first reported 20 years ago by study ...