The Caribbean region can be seen as a kind of natural laboratory in which, over millions of years, plate tectonics resulted in the transfer of a subduction zone from the Pacific to the Atlantic ...

Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz. "Plate tectonic processes in the Pacific and Atlantic during the Cretaceous period have shaped the Caribbean region to this day." ScienceDaily.

Researchers have successfully reconstructed prehistoric atmospheric conditions by analyzing oxygen isotopes in fossilized ...

During the Late Cretaceous (between 100 and 66 million years ago), Europe was an extensive archipelago with numerous small and large islands situated in a shallow tropical sea, the so-called Late ...

Dinosaur fossils dating to the Late Cretaceous are more rare in parts of Europe than in North America or Asia, and scientists are still on the hunt for a complete rhabdodontid skeleton.

Newly discovered birds from Late Cretaceous North America were hawk-sized and had powerful raptor-like feet, according to a study published October 9, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by ...

Newly discovered ancient birds from Late Cretaceous North America were hawk-sized and had powerful raptor-like feet, according to a study published October 9, 2024 in the open-access journal&nbsp ...