A team of budding paleontologists from Sul Ross State University has unearthed a giant fossilized bone of a dinosaur from the ...

In March, a group of paleontology students from Sul Ross State University embarked on a research trip to Big Bend National ...

The prehistoric crocodile relative may have tolerated both freshwater and saltwater habitats, allowing it to conquer North ...

The find adds to Big Bend NP's long-held reputation as a hotspot for dinosaur fossils. Previous discoveries at the park ...

A fossil from one of the largest dinosaurs to live in North America was discovered in a national park in Texas. In March ... and stratigraphic analyses of Cretaceous—Eocene rocks and to retrieve ...

The Cretaceous is split into two smaller time periods called epochs. The Early Cretaceous Epoch lasted from 145 million years ago to 100.5 million years ago and the Late Cretaceous Epoch lasted from ...

3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and tone of life on Earth. At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the ...

Instead, poor fossilization conditions and unexposed late Cretaceous rock layers mean they're either not preserved or hard to find.