Cratonic thinning, a phenomenon geologists think happened hundreds of millions of years ago, appears to be taking place far ...

Explore how North America is changing as its deep cratonic root thins and pieces are dripping into the Earth's mantle.

You might know the Cretaceous Period for big animals such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, or for being the end of the age of dinosaurs ... that lived in North America in the Late Cretaceous. It ...

“Across the places on Earth where we’ve looked for dinosaurs and other terrestrial vertebrates – North America and Europe ... As for the plant kingdom, the Jurassic was the age of the gymnosperms – a ...

Laramidia was created 90 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period, when rising seas flooded the middle of North America and ... turtles, and dinosaurs—especially dinosaurs.

A strange cast of ferocious predators and giant herbivores lived here during the ice age. Graham Duggan Most archeologists agree that human beings reached North America 14,000 years ago ...

It’s fun to imagine secret dinosaur survivors living today, hidden in a remote corner of Earth. But the truth of who made it ...

Paleontologists believed that the very first dinosaurs evolved in Patagonia, but a new study points in a very different ...

Allosaurus was the most common large carnivore of the Late Jurassic in North America ... resulted in the animal's death at a relatively young age. "Big Al" was featured in the BBC's "Walking With ...

Some animals around today are not considered dinosaurs, but stayed quite similar since the age of the dinosaur. Both crocodiles and dinosaurs belong to a group called archosaurs and share a common ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.