A team of researchers recently set out to northern Alaska to collect avian fossils — and discovered the earliest known ...

The Psittacosaurus lived some time in the early Cretaceous period, between 135 and 120 million years ago, during a time when dinosaurs were just beginning to evolve into birds. Based on the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A rare dinosaur bone bed containing 115-million-year-old fossils has been unearthed in the remnant of “an Early Cretaceous period river and wetlands,” according to Maryland officials.

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 ...