A University of Portsmouth student has discovered a new species of prehistoric mammal dating back 145 million years to the ...

Museum officials uncovered a rare Cretaceous dinosaur bone 750 feet beneath their Denver parking lot, potentially the city's ...

Zombie fungi were already controlling insects 100 million years ago, according to a recent study of fossils trapped in ...

The Cretaceous Period lasted for nearly 80 million years. Discover what the climate was like in this geological period, where the continents were and what animals and plants lived on them. Find out ...

The Cretaceous period was the last and longest segment of the Mesozoic era. It lasted approximately 79 million years, from the minor extinction event that closed the Jurassic period about 145 ...

Some 131 million years ago, a pregnant ichthyosaur roamed the waters of what is now the Torres del Paine National Park in ...

Tyrannosaurus Rex Tyrannosaurus rex arose during the Cretaceous period about 85 million years ago, and thrived as a top land predator until the dinosaurs went extinct 20 million years later. This ...

When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by ...

This is a scientifically and historically thrilling find for both the Museum and the larger Denver community,” said Dr. James Hagadorn, the curator of geology at the Denver Museum of Nature and ...

The Museum of the Rockies has unveiled its new exhibit, "Cretaceous Crossroads," featuring Montana's state fossil, Miasora, ...