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.

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 ...

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 fossils of the first flowering plants, insects, modern birds, and modern mammals are from this time. Let’s review the important things you should know about the Cretaceous period.

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 ...

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 ...