The Cretaceous period was the last and longest segment of ... the 2015 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting. An Early Cretaceous ankylosaur was found with fossilized angiosperm ...

It lasted a long time, nearly 80 million years, making it the longest geological period of the Phanerozoic Eon, which began some 539 million years ago. The Cretaceous is split into two smaller time ...

A groundbreaking discovery in southern Chile has brought to light the first complete pregnant ichthyosaur from the Early Cretaceous period. The fossil, nicknamed Fiona, was found near the Tyndall ...

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Joeckel and his colleagues found evidence for two distinct peaks in a curve representing changes in a key isotope ratio during the early Cretaceous period. This discovery indicates that the Utah ...

Acrocanthosaurus actually lived a bit after the Jurassic, in the Early Cretaceous period. In 2022, Dinosaur Valley State Park sits about 70 miles outside of Dallas. But in the Early Cretaceous ...

"In our attempt to find out the origin, we found it was early Cretaceous seawater. It's really water that's from the North Atlantic." The findings showing that the water is probably between 100 ...

It revealed marked seasonal temperature differences and periodic glacial melt events during the Early Cretaceous period (approximately 139.8 to 132.9 million years ago). This discovery challenges ...

SAO PAULO, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Brazil's geological service on Thursday announced a new species of dinosaur, a speedy animal that lived in the desert during the early Cretaceous period. The new ...