Location matters, as Antarctica may have served as a refuge ... But modern birds are exceptionally rare before the end-Cretaceous extinction, and more recent studies have cast doubt on the ...

The plant life of the Cretaceous was quite different to that of today. For example, temperate rainforest grew close to the poles, which back then were ice free. 'We have evidence from West Antarctica ...

"In the Antarctic circle, it has been proposed that Cretaceous [Victoria] experienced long periods of dark/light that the poles experience today," Kotevski said. "Thick forests lined this fast ...

through Antarctica, into South America and attain a larger size. It also paints a picture of what life was like here in Victoria in the Cretaceous period and the amazing, terrifying creatures that ...

Southern Australia was close enough to the South Pole that it was within the Antarctic Circle during the Cretaceous, although the region was much warmer then than it is today. The team identified ...

The new fossil unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula of the ancient ... years before the asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous Period that wiped out the dinosaurs, aside ...

The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird,Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs forcompany. Disclaimer ...

An early relative of the continent’s ducks and geese, it lived off the Antarctic coast during the Cretaceous Period, at around the same time as the famous Tyrannosaurus rex. “This fossil ...

Where they lived: Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica. What they ate ... at the end of ...

Victoria was positioned within the Antarctic Circle, separated from Tasmania by a vast rift valley rather than open sea. This was the Early Cretaceous, and lush forests filled with dinosaurs dominated ...