A set of bones belonging to sauropods, as long-necked dinosaurs are called, found in the municipality of Ibirá in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, reveals that the region was conducive to a bone ...

Groundbreaking research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has unveiled a landmark discovery – fossils of the world’s oldest known megaraptorid and the first evidence of ...

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 ...

For those wishing to leave a lasting mark of their existence on Earth, here’s a tip: walk along the edge of a lake where there is mud or fine, moist sand covered with algae. Hundreds of dinosaurs did ...

The Early Cretaceous represents a pivotal interval in Earth’s history, where marine palaeobiology and biostratigraphy converge to elucidate the evolution of marine ecosystems and their response to ...

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 ...

A team of paleontologists and researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has discovered what may be the largest known dinosaur mating dance arena ever found. For their study, ...

One of the last dinosaurs living in Africa before their extinction 66 million years ago has been discovered in a phosphate mine in northern Morocco. A study of the fossil suggests that following the ...

The trackway of a mammal from the earliest Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era (145 to 66 million years ago), which hopped around on its hind legs like a kangaroo, has been newly discovered in Jinju ...

Scientists have reconstructed the climatic development of the Arctic Ocean during the Cretaceous period, 145 to 66 million years ago. At that time the poles were devoid of ice and average temperatures ...