The Cretaceous period was the last and longest segment ... Though Darwin's lost continent never showed up, some flowering plants may have appeared in the Jurassic, recent research has shown.

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

About 120 million years ago, southern Australia was not the sunny, temperate land we know today. Instead, it lay within the ...

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 ...

during the Cretaceous period. That's relatively recent in geologic time: If all Earth's history were compressed into an hour, flowering plants would exist for only the last 90 seconds. But once ...

Rabat - In the heart of central Morocco, near the phosphate-rich lands of the Oulad Abdoun Basin, scientists have uncovered a ...

Herrera collects and studies plants from the Early Cretaceous Period (100.5 million to 145 million years ago) in northwestern South America, a part of the continent where little paleobotanical ...

Learn more about the earliest evidence of birds breeding and nesting in the Arctic, a behavior that millions of birds ...

Instead, they survive on plant nectar because their piercing ... found two male mosquito fossils from the Lower Cretaceous period with intact piercing proboscis and sharp mandibles needed to ...

The life strategy of plants that dominate our forests today ... At the end of the Cretaceous period, a 10km-wide space rock landed off the Yucatan coast. The impact and the ensuing tsunamis ...