The Cretaceous Period witnessed a remarkable diversification of marine reptiles, among which plesiosaurs featured prominently. These secondarily aquatic reptiles adapted to a range of ecological ...

This paper elucidates the ecological context of two theropod dinosaurs of differing body sizes inhabiting the lakeshore region of Otog Banner, Inner Mongolia. The larger theropod exhibited a walking ...

A new trackway was recently uncovered in Mongolia in a sedimentary layer from the Lower Cretaceous. That means that whatever left the prints lived around 130 to 120 million years ago.

Around 66 million years ago, springtime in the Northern Hemisphere brought disaster and mass death to Earth in the form of a giant asteroid impact that triggered a global extinction. After an asteroid ...

The newly hatched juveniles of large and gigantic pterosaurs likely outcompeted other smaller adult pterosaur species to dominate the Late Cretaceous period around 100 million years ago, a new study ...

An LMU team has studied the biodiversity of larvae from the insect order neuroptera over the past 100 million years. An LMU team has studied the biodiversity of larvae from the insect order neuroptera ...

The newly hatched juveniles of large and gigantic pterosaurs likely out-competed other smaller adult pterosaur species to dominate the Late Cretaceous period around 100 million years ago, a new study ...

The Haţeg Basin in western Romania holds one of the greatest fossil assemblages from the Late Cretaceous period, and it ...

Nearly 66 million years ago, a large asteroid hit Earth and contributed to the global extinction of dinosaurs, allowing the rise of mammals and leaving birds as their only living descendants.

A student discovers the first dragonfly fossil from the age of the dinosaurs in Canada. Cordualadensa acorni lived 75 million ...