3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and tone of life on Earth ... Rays and modern sharks became common. Sea urchins and sea stars (starfish ...

A 99-million-year-old wasp species used a Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture prey and may represent a new insect family, ...

"Twins! She has another baby," Judith Pardo-Pérez, a paleontologist at the University of Magallanes in Chile who first ...

These occurred at the end of the Ordivician, the Late Devonian, the Permian/Triassic (P/Tr) boundary, the end of the Triassic, and the Cretaceous ... tropical forms of life have been drastically ...

The Cretaceous period ... While dinosaurs dominated the land, the seas were teeming with diverse life forms, including the sea lilies featured in the discovery. Although the fossilized vomit ...

Bioluminescence, the ability of living organisms to emit light, is a fascinating phenomenon observed in various life forms, ...

According to some scientists, fossil evidence clearly shows a decline in the number of dinosaur species for several million years leading up to the end of the Cretaceous. Sea Level The presence of ...

eliminated the majority of life on Earth). For most of the Cretaceous, Canada’s prairie provinces were sitting deep underwater. A giant inland sea cut right across North America. Known as the ...

Large and rapid global sea-level changes indicate that polar ice sheets may have ephemerally existed during the Cretaceous greenhouse climate. Two oxygen isotopic studies provide evidence for and ...

A Danish fossil hunter discovered a 66-million-year-old chunk of fossilised vomit, likely from a fish that couldn't digest sea lilies. A regurgitated clump of sea lily fragments from at least two ...