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 ...

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 ...

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