During this period, oceans formed as land shifted and broke out of one big supercontinent into smaller ones. 3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico ...

You might know the Cretaceous Period for big animals such as Tyrannosaurus rex and ... The Early Cretaceous Epoch lasted from 145 million years ago to 100.5 million years ago and the Late Cretaceous ...

semi-aquatic and only found on the island of Borneo. The earless monitor dates back to the late Cretaceous period, approximately 70 million years ago. Found only in the forests of Borneo ...

The fossil was found in Uzbekistan from a layer of earth dating to the late Cretaceous Period about 90 million years ago. The new species was named “ulughbegsaurus” by the team of researchers ...

Insects were likely part of their diet. Eutriconodonts are believed to have gone extinct 80 million years ago in the late Cretaceous Period, the scientists said. Three fossilized eutriconodont ...