A newly discovered, raccoon-sized armored monstersaurian from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Southern ...

BEIJING -- A research team from China University of Geosciences (Beijing) announced Thursday that it has recorded, for the ...

The Cretaceous period brought about the first diversification and appearance of flowering plants. Different organisms, such as insects, evolved as they took advantage of new food sources that ...

"These animals, like other lizards ... a predatory marine lizard that lived in the Cretaceous period, just south of Starkville. James Starnes Mosasaurs, a diverse group of marine lizards ...

It revealed marked seasonal temperature differences and periodic glacial melt events during the Early Cretaceous period (approximately ... and similar accretionary organisms grow in annual ...

Over 70 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period, the southeastern U.S ... Over millions of years, marine organisms like plankton and shellfish accumulated on the seafloor, forming ...

The Carcharodontosaurus was another species of therapod that lived in the Cretaceous period. Overseas fossils ... our understanding of what these animals looked like, what animals were present ...

QUESTION: Are ancient lacewings, which lived during the Cretaceous period, related to the butterfly ... Convergent evolution occurs when unrelated organisms independently evolve similar traits ...

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 ...

(Credit: James Havens) Duck-billed dinosaurs, also called Hadrosaurs, were common during the Cretaceous period in Europe ... which is important because we previously thought that larger animals like ...