When the Cretaceous Period and Mesozoic Era ended 66 million years ago, the Palaeogene Period and the Cenozoic Era began. In the Palaeogene, the continents drifted even closer to their present-day ...

During this period, oceans formed as land shifted and broke out of one big supercontinent into smaller ones. 3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and ...

Non-bird dinosaurs lived between about 245 and 66 million years ago, in a time known as the Mesozoic Era. This was many millions of years before the first modern humans, Homo sapiens, appeared.

While many of the dinosaurs we see in Jurassic Park are from the Mesozoic era, this timeframe is divided into the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods. The terrestrial species were far more ...

A new study finds that the Mesozoic Era saw significantly higher quantities of the greenhouse gas than both pre-industrial ...

The Cretaceous period marked the last period of what’s known as the Mesozoic Era, following the Jurassic period and ended with the extinction of the dinosaurs.

The Mesozoic era, traditionally renowned as the age of dinosaurs, also marks a period of remarkable innovation in the evolution of early mammals. Mammaliaforms diversified into a variety of ...

Theropod Survival Strategies In their role as the main predators of the Mesozoic era, theropods developed a host of adaptations. Research has shown that some theropods — such as the tiny, ...

Also, the data revealed that once a dinosaur family left Europe, they didn’t come back during the Early Cretaceous Period, about 125 million to 100 million years ago.