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A fossil from British Columbia, originally discovered in the 80s, has finally been identified as a new species named ...
It can tell us about vegetation, climate and even human activity through time. Pollen grains are far more than allergens — ...
An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...
The changing vegetation likely influenced dinosaurs, with many expanding their diet to include flowering plants by the end of the Cretaceous, according to Smithsonian magazine.
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 ...
THE Cretaceous Flora, part ii., is devoted to the Lower Greensand (Aptian) flora of Britain. Several species have previously been recorded, but hitherto no general account of the flora as a whole ...
A duck-billed Hadrosaurus was unearthed in Haddonfield, New Jersey, in 1858. Just 12 miles from this Mantua museum site, the ...
At the same time they were carefully recording all the microscopic spores and pollen they saw in the slides to build a picture of the plants through the Early Cretaceous period. A planet-altering ...
Bromeliads, which shared the Earth in the Cretaceous Era with dinosaurs, and which have been a staple of indoor landscaping for what seems like almost as long, are moving outdoors, adding a tropical ...
Deep dive into the amber deposits on Hokkaido Island in Japan, which may serve as a record of ancient tsunamis.
Join us as we imagine if a T. rex lived today. What would its territory look like, and how would humans live alongside it?