A fossil from British Columbia, originally discovered in the 80s, has finally been identified as a new species named ...

"Small animals that could shelter underground ... the world was a warmer place during the Cretaceous period than it is today, according to Climate Policy Watcher. The poles were cooler than ...

You might know the Cretaceous Period for big animals such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, or for being the end of the age of dinosaurs. But what was the world like in the millions of years ...

The elasmosaurids were a genus of dinosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now the United States.

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...

Geologists working on surveying land in Mississippi stumbled upon an incredible find: the fossil of an ancient marine apex ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs.

When a 6-mile-wide asteroid struck Earth at the end of the Cretaceous period some 66 million years ago, it wiped out the majority of living organisms. Many victims were instantly fried by fires or ...

This newly discovered titanosaur species was found in what was once a shallow pond during the Cretaceous Period ... and other organisms. Among this prehistoric treasure trove, the team uncovered ...

preventing it from being torn apart by other animals on the seafloor. The chalk surrounding the fossil allowed scientists to date it to 66 million years ago, the end of the Cretaceous period that ...