In 1902, professional fossil hunter Barnum Brown excavated a stunning set of bones from eastern Montana’s Cretaceous period ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

About 100 million years ago, the oceans of the Cretaceous period could be the stage of fierce battles between giant predators ...

OKAYAMA--An international group of researchers confirmed fossilized dinosaur footprints of theropods in Mongolia, the first ...

The Early Cretaceous period witnessed a remarkable diversity of gnetalean plants, with fossil discoveries shedding new light on the morphology, ecology and evolutionary history of this enigmatic group ...

A fragment of upper jaw fossil from the Early Cretaceous is among the oldest examples of a toothless amphibian in the fossil record Chihiro Kai The arid valleys of Wyoming’s Cloverly Formation are ...

On the final day of the Cretaceous period, some 66 million years ago, Earth was teeming with a dazzling variety of dinosaurs.

(Reuters) - About 76 million years ago, a juvenile of one of the largest flying creatures in Earth's history, called Cryodrakon boreas, walked along a riverbank on a lush coastal plain and lowered its ...

NANCHANG, April 17 (Xinhua) -- A tiny fossil dinosaur egg unearthed in east China's Jiangxi Province has been officially certified by Guinness World Records as the smallest non-avian dinosaur egg ever ...

The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird,Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs forcompany. Sixty-six ...