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 ...

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 ...

Our new Evolution Garden in front of our iconic building includes lots of plants like those found in the Jurassic and Cretaceous, as well as rocks and fossils from those periods. As you wander through ...

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 ...

As a result, by 100 million years ago, the forests of Victoria included an open conifer-dominated forest canopy. The ...

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 ...

“The show involves the Cretaceous period when the plants first learned how to flower. There were dinosaurs at the time, and they didn't adapt to the new plants and the secret stars are actually ...