The Museum of the Rockies will unveil "Cretaceous Crossroads," showcasing Montana's rich prehistoric history and highlighting ...

In the Late Cretaceous (~100-66 million years ago), ... Along this ancient landscape of warm and wet coastal plains comes an extremely rich fossil record of dinosaurs and other extinct animals.

The landscape of this area is very similar to their Cretaceous system, as are many elements of the plant and animal communities (not including the non-avian dinosaurs, of course).

Named Cienciargentina sanchezi, the dinosaur represents the earliest known member of the Rebbachisauridae family and shifts key perspectives on the Late Cretaceous dinosaur landscape in South ...

Around 86 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period, the Earth was home to a wide variety of formidable predators.

This late Cretaceous landscape was replete with dinosaurs, and their babies might have made ideal food for the huge carnivore, which could walk well on all fours and probably stalked its prey on ...

Paleontologists have discovered that a close relative of Velociraptor hunted the dwarfed inhabitants of Late Cretaceous Europe, an island landscape largely isolated from nearby continents. While ...

“The Late Cretaceous was forested and warm,” Johnson says, with forests dominated by broadleaf trees, palms and relatives of ginger. ... The surviving species created a new landscape.

However, by the Late Cretaceous Period—around 100 million years later—tyrannosaurs had evolved into animals like T. rex, which could weigh up to 7 tons. The new species’ small size some 80 million ...

Late cretaceous dinosaur-dominated ecosystem Date: March 18, 2020 Source: Geological Society of America Summary: A topic of considerable interest to paleontologists is how dinosaur-dominated ...