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 ...

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 ...

The hell ant, which was preserved in limestone, is a member of Haidomyrmecinae -- an extinct subfamily that only lived during the Cretaceous period. These ants had highly specialized, scythe-like ...

The Cretaceous period saw massive crocs like Sarcosuchus, Dryosaurus, Deinosuchus, Shieldcroc, and more. Fossil evidence suggests the earliest snakes lived between 140 and 167 million years ago ...

a long-necked dinosaur that lived in North America during the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago. Fossils from the giant sauropod are known in the Big Bend but are usually fragmentary and ...

“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 ...

At the same time they were carefully recording all the microscopic spores and pollen they saw in the slides to build a picture of the plants through the Early Cretaceous period. The transition ...

Geologists in Mississippi unearthed a large vertebra belonging to a Mosasaurus hoffmannii, a giant marine reptile from the late Cretaceous period ... a 3-dimensional map of the geologic layers ...