Scientists recently made a fascinating discovery involving amber, a substance known for preserving ancient organisms.

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.

Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra is a newly identified species of sauropod that was so big it could probably eat a whole forest in ...

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 ...

This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and followed by the Cretaceous Period ... a critical event in the evolution ...

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.

The findings suggest that mammals were adapting to terrestrial life well before the end of the Cretaceous period. The team discovered ... the spread of flowering plants, known as angiosperms ...

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 ...

A 99-million-year-old wasp species used a Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture prey and may represent a new insect family, revealing unexpected diversity in ancient parasitoid behavior. An extinct ...

Prehistoric insects encased in amber reveal a terrifying evolutionary road that dead-ended sometime after the mid-Cretaceous period. After examining multiple roughly 99-million-year-old specimens ...