Southern Africa is widely recognized for its rich fossil record, preserving evidence of ancient life, including dinosaurs.

Geologists recently discovered the fossil of a Cretaceous-era mosasaur vertebra near Starkville, Mississippi. The experts believe the apex predator of the ancient seas could have weighed 20,000 pounds ...

The Cretaceous Period produced some of the most unusual dinosaurs ever discovered, with body shapes that still feel ...

The end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago, marked the dramatic extinction of the dinosaurs. Until now, our understanding of this mass extinction has been largely shaped by fossils from ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

Aug. 29 (UPI) --An interdisciplinary team of specialists from Argentina's National Scientific and Technical Research Council, or CONICET, discovered most of the skeleton -- including the skull and ...

The Cretaceous Period, spanning approximately 145 to 66 million years ago, represents a critical era in Earth’s history when greenhouse conditions, dynamic plate tectonics, and widespread volcanic ...

The nearly complete skull was found in 2001 in the Méndez Formation in Nuevo León, northeastern Mexico, dozens of kilometers ...

"What we see is that it was an active hunter, which tells us a lot about how we can compare it, for example, to modern-day orcas." ...