Our dinosaur expert Dr Susie Maidment and fossil plant expert Dr Paul Kenrick explore what the world was like back then and the animals and plants that called our planet home. The Cretaceous is a ...

The Early Cretaceous period was a significant time for the evolution of Gnetales, a group of seed plants that includes modern genera such as Ephedra, Gnetum, and Welwitschia. Recent research has ...

during the Cretaceous period. That's relatively recent in geologic time: If all Earth's history were compressed into an hour, flowering plants would exist for only the last 90 seconds. But once ...

Flowering plants were spreading across the landscape ... of more than half the planet's species at the end of the Cretaceous remains a matter of scientific debate. But the shifted continents ...

Other groups of organisms also diversified. The first snakes evolved during this time, and by the end of the Cretaceous, flowering plants were a much more common part of Earth's plant life. Various ...

In the later part of the Cretaceous, the hadrosaurs were seen gnawing through their teeth in just 50 days. As per the researchers, the ornithopods indulged in binge-eating of tough plants because ...

What they ate: Some ate plants, while others ate animals, including other dinosaurs ... and went extinct around 66 million ...

The Late Cretaceous period was 100.5-66 million years ... They would live in the underbrush, working to avoid dinosaurs and ...

For months, scientists conclude, dense clouds of dust blocked the sun's rays, darkening and chilling Earth to deadly levels for most plants and ... than average in the Cretaceous/Tertiary ...