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.

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 ...

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

Learn more about the mammalian transition from arboreal to terrestrial life, which began millions of years before the arrival ...

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

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 ...

All continents during the Triassic Period were part of a single land ... and by the end of the Cretaceous, flowering plants were a much more common part of Earth's plant life. Various insect groups ...