Maiasaura was a hadrosaur, or duck-billed dinosaur, that lived during the late Cretaceous Period. Its name is derived from Greek, “maia” meaning mother or good mother, and “saura” being the feminine ...

Fishes from the Upper Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation, North Slope of Alaska, and their palaeobiogeographical significance. Papers in Palaeontology , 2025 DOI: 10.1002/spp2.70014 Cite This Page : ...

As a result, by 100 million years ago, the forests of Victoria included an open conifer-dominated forest canopy. The ...

“As the Cretaceous period progressed and the continents that once formed Gondwana began to drift apart, these predators became increasingly specialised. This evolutionary shift led them to ...

An artist’s depiction of a cycadeoid forest in the Cretaceous period. Two people stand beside a cycad to illustrate the immense sizes these plants could have reached. "American Fossil Cycads." ...

"And eventually, a full Atlantic circulation system emerged as the gateway grew deeper and wider, and the climate began a period of long-term cooling during the Late Cretaceous period." ...

"These findings show the dynamic interplay between gateway opening, ocean circulation and climate change during the middle Cretaceous [period], highlighting the pivotal role of ocean gateways in ...

said in a statement that the “findings have shined a light on how the largest tyrannosaurs appeared in North and South America during the Cretaceous (Period) and how and why they grew so large ...

The Cretaceous Period is famous for ending with a massive asteroid impact, but what was our planet like in the millions of years before that?