Paleontologists in Denmark found a once-gloopy, now-hardened mess that they believe was spat up by a Cretaceous-era fish.

It lasted a long time, nearly 80 million years, making it the longest geological period of the Phanerozoic Eon, which began some 539 million years ago. The Cretaceous is split into two smaller time ...

A stunning discovery in Denmark has revealed an unexpected link to the world of dinosaurs: fossilized vomit dating back 66 ...

The Late Cretaceous period was 100.5-66 million years ago during a time when the Earth was dominated by dinosaurs. Living alongside these giant reptiles, however, were a variety of different types ...

During this period, oceans formed as land shifted and broke out of one big supercontinent into smaller ones. 3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and ...

Scientists put their “stamp” on prehistory after discovering a massive dinosaur footprint in Mongolia said to have belonged to one of the largest two-legged animals ever to roam the Earth.

Campanian and Cenomanian: Geological stages of the Late Cretaceous period, with the Campanian occurring after the Cenomanian. This Nature Research Intelligence Topic summary is one of 30,000 ...

This finding broadens our understanding of plesiosaur habitats and their ecological flexibility during the Cretaceous period ... existing from the Late Triassic to the Late Cretaceous.

this famous carnivore dominated the forested river valleys in western North America during the late Cretaceous period, 68 million years ago. Although T. rex is a household name, what we know about ...

The shoulder blade fossil was discovered in May 2016 in a layer of earth from the late Cretaceous Period on the west coast of Nagasaki Peninsula in the city of Nagasaki. The stratum of earth ...