Scientists have explored how changes in sea surface temperatures during the Cretaceous influenced the diversification and ...

But as the continents spread, the ocean currents churned with ever more vigor. After a temperature spike in the mid-Cretaceous, the climate began to cool, and the tenor changed. Other creatures ...

The images indicated that, similar to dolphins and whales, thallatosuchians evolved smaller braincase sinuses as they ...

Discovered in Colorado, a new prehistoric mammal species that lived during the age of the dinosaurs may have been a ...

The UK's famous White Cliffs of Dover are just one of many Late Cretaceous chalk deposits. Chalk is laid down in marine environments, and the fossils within it can tell us about the creatures that ...

The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that ...

The second asteroid's impact site is called the Nadir crater. Rock was liquified, launching a tsunami into the Atlantic Ocean ...

While dinosaurs roamed the land, plesiosaurs were the rulers of the seas for millions of years.  Plesiosaurs were ...

An international team of paleobiologists have found that the sinuses of ocean-dwelling relatives of modern-day crocodiles ...

Scientists reveal the nodosaur's armor could withstand impacts like a car crash, offering insight into this ...

Paleobiologists have found that the sinuses of ocean dwelling relatives of modern-day crocodiles prevented them from evolving into deep divers like whales and dolphins.