Cretaceous climate crisis with extreme heat and ocean anoxia led to the extinction of powerful marine predators.

The sudden heat altered oceans' chemical composition, which affected some top aquatic reptilian predators more than some ...

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 ...

Among them were pliosaurs with giant jaws, toothy crocodile-like reptiles (thalattosuchia), and sleek, fast, fish-shaped ...

Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous oceans are known for enormous ... it was likely a period of ocean anoxia and climate volatility related to the hottest interval of the last 541 million years.

Scientists divide the Mesozoic Era into three periods: the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. During this era, the land gradually split from one huge supercontinent into smaller ones. The associated ...

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

Yet during the mid-Cretaceous, ichthyosaurs ... it was likely a period of ocean anoxia and climate volatility related to the hottest interval of the last 541 million years. This interval, known ...