The Early Cretaceous period was a significant time for the evolution of Gnetales, a group of seed plants that includes modern genera such as Ephedra, Gnetum, and Welwitschia. Recent research has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since then, a project has been started to plant the species at sites across the world to safeguard its survival. Come and see this unlikely survivor of ancient forests in our grounds. The Cretaceous ...

A strange layer in the fossil record contains evidence that fern populations exploded following the mass extinction that ended the Cretaceous period. Scientists want ... in the fossil record than ...

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following ...

The Late Cretaceous period was 100.5-66 million years ago during ... They would live in the underbrush, working to avoid dinosaurs and eat plants as well as any scraps of meat they could find.

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 ...