So we squinted through her powerful magnifier and took a figurative walk through a Cretaceous world of tiny and diverse angiosperms. Enlarged hundreds or thousands of times, Friis's fossilized ...

Today, about 90% of plants are flowering plants, also known as angiosperms. While the origin of flowering plants may go back as far as the Triassic Period, we don't see much evidence of them in the ...

An asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous Period ended the dinosaurs, but earlier smaller extinctions dramatically set the ...

A 113-million-year-old fossil discovered in Brazil has shattered records, marking the oldest known ant specimen ever ...

A precious flower fossil was recently discovered in Laiyang, East China's Shandong Province, the Chinanews.com reported on ...

A new mammal species discovered in Mongolia reveals surprising insights into ancient inland ecosystems and the dietary habits ...

Began to break up during the Jurassic, split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland. Cretaceous - appearance of angiosperms, establishment in mid-latitudes while Northern Laurasia and Southern Gondwana ...

A recent discovery in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, has unveiled a new mammal species that dates back to the Late Cretaceous ...

3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and tone of life on Earth. At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the ...

How mid-Cretaceous events affected marine top predators Date: May 2, 2025 Source: European Geosciences Union Summary: The highest trophic niches in Mesozoic oceans were filled by diverse marine ...

In the middle of Mongolia’s vast Gobi Desert, a team of scientists has made an exciting discovery: the fossil of a ...

A joint research team has discovered a fossil belonging to a previously unknown genus and species of mammal in the Late ...