IN the course of my work at the British Museum on Cretaceous plants, I have examined a number of more or less perfectly petrified “woods.” Such specimens have generally been classed together ...

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 ...

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 ...

gymnosperms), and spatial variation in extinction and recovery timing. The Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) mass extinction is well known for the global extinction of non-avian dinosaurs and other dominant ...

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 ...

Our new Evolution Garden in front of our iconic building includes lots of plants like those found in the Jurassic and Cretaceous, as well as rocks and fossils from those periods. As you wander through ...

New research published in Science Advances shows the sudden movement of tectonic plates that join beneath the continent about 120 million years ago resulted in the thickening of the Earth’s crust on ...

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 ...