The Cretaceous is a geological period that began 145 million years ago and ended 66 million years ago. It is the last period in the Mesozoic Era. It comes after the Jurassic Period and before the ...

During this period, oceans formed as land shifted ... and skies would never be the same in the new era that dawned after the close of the Mesozoic era.

Scientists divide the Mesozoic Era into three periods ... Sea levels rose and fell repeatedly during the Cretaceous Period. At the highest point there were many shallow seas separating parts of the ...

A discovery about the dark fur of early mammals confirms long-held theories about their evolutionary and ecological behavior.

This article examines the fastest dinosaurs from the Mesozoic era ... This ABSOLUTE UNIT lived during the Early Cretaceous period in modern-day Utah and was named as such. Its size and agility ...

3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era) was a desolate time in Earth's history. Something—a bout of violent volcanic eruptions, climate change, or perhaps a fatal run ...

The Mesozoic Era is renowned for the evolution ... Oryctodromeuswas a small, agile dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period, ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

Those years are known as the Cretaceous period, the longest portion of the Mesozoic era, which ended approximately 66 million years ago (after a meteor strike, many scientists believe, eliminated ...

Scientists have discovered South Africa’s youngest known dinosaur tracks along the remote coastline of the Western Cape. The newly identified footprints, estimated to be around 140 million years old, ...

Dinosaur bones have taught us a great deal about these animals from the “age of dinosaurs”, the Mesozoic Era, which stretched ... very beginning of the Cretaceous period when the African ...

Dinosaurs have captured people’s imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by ...