Cretaceous period
Fossil Site in Bolivia Records Thousands of Cretaceous Dinosaur Tracks, Tail Traces, and Swim Tracks
The Carreras Pampa site in Torotoro National Park, Bolivia, has 1,321 tracks and 289 single tracks, for a total of ...
New Fossils from West Texas Extend Known Range of Tenontosaurus
Paleontologists from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, the University of Texas at El Paso and Montana ...
New Filter-Feeding Pterosaur Species Discovered in Brazil
Named Bakilib playedThe newly identified species is the first filter-feeding pterosaur from the tropics. Artistic reconstruction of a filter-feeding pterosaur. ...
Dinosaur Eggshells Help Paleontologists Determine Age of Fossil-Bearing Rocks
Scientists from Stellenbosch University and elsewhere used advanced uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating and elemental mapping techniques to measure trace amounts of ...
Fossil Offers First Known Evidence of Pterosaur Herbivory
Paleotologists from China and Brazil say they found a total of 320 phytoliths – microscopic solids made up of mineral ...
99-Million-Year-Old Amber Preserves Earliest-Known Mosquito Larva
The new fossil, encased in a piece of amber from the Kachin region of Myanmar, represents both the first mosquito ...
Nanotyrannus is Distinct Dinosaur Lineage, New Research Shows
Paleontologists examined an exceptionally well-preserved, nearly somatically mature tyrannosaurus skeleton from the Hell Creek Formation in Montana. Their results show ...
Latest Cretaceous Dinosaurs Lived in Vibrant, Regionally Distinct Communities
The most iconic mass extinction in Earth's history occurred about 66 million years ago, when rapid environmental destruction led to ...
Two New Specimens of Edmontosaurus annectens Preserve Fine Details of Scales and Hooves
Paleontologists have examined two exceptional specimens of a duck-billed dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period. Edmontosaurus annextens. Using a range ...
New Species of Dome-Headed Dinosaur Identified in Montana
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of pachycephalosaurid dinosaur based on five fossil specimens found in the Late ...
