In the Late Cretaceous, for example, the Western Interior Seaway split ... It was caused by a large asteroid crash-landing off the coast of Mexico, which changed the climate of the planet dramatically ...

Researchers in Mongolia's Gobi Desert have discovered a unique two-clawed dinosaur species, Duonychus tsogtbaatari, from the ...

After a temperature spike in the mid-Cretaceous, the climate began to cool, and the tenor changed. Other creatures, such as frogs, salamanders, turtles, crocodiles, and snakes, proliferated on the ...

New high resolution geochemical records for the first time reveal when and how two major eruption phases of gigantic flood basalt volcanism had an impact on climate and biota in the late ...