The Cretaceous-Palaeogene extinction 66 million years ago is possibly the most famous mass extinction event. It was caused by a large asteroid crash-landing off the coast of Mexico, which changed the ...

After a temperature spike in the mid-Cretaceous, the climate began to cool, and the tenor changed. Other creatures, such as frogs, salamanders, turtles, crocodiles, and snakes, proliferated on the ...

The highest trophic niches in Mesozoic oceans were filled by diverse marine reptiles, including ichthyosaurians, ...

Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous oceans are known for enormous and fierce predators like pliosaurids with 2-meter-long jaws, toothy thalattosuchia ...

To unravel causality arguments in Earth climate history across regions ... major eruption phases of the Deccan Traps in the ...

This find provides new insight into the traits, climate and geographic distribution of Cretaceous mammals. A paleontological analysis of the animal’s teeth shows that “Ravjaa” was a small ...