Spinosaur Britain: Multiple different species likely roamed Cretaceous Britain
Analysis of a British spinosaur tooth by palaeontologists at the EvoPalaeoLab of the University of Southampton shows that several distinct ...
Tag: Cretaceous
Early Cretaceous shift in the global carbon cycle affected both land and sea
Scientists continue to refine techniques for understanding present-day changes in Earth’s environmental systems, but the planet’s distant past also offers ...
Bizarre cretaceous bird from China shows evolutionarily decoupled skull and body
It is now widely accepted that birds are descended from dinosaurs. It is also understood that this transition encompasses some ...
The speed at which spinosaurid dinosaur teeth were replaced accounts for their overabundance in Cretaceous sites
This has been confirmed in the article 'New contributions to the skull anatomy of spinosaurid theropods: Baryonychinae maxilla from the ...
Extreme volcanism did not cause the massive extinction of species in the late Cretaceous
A study published in the journal Geology rules out that extreme volcanic episodes had any influence on the massive extinction ...
Ancient teeth reveal surprising diversity of Cretaceous reptiles at Argentina fossil site
Where skeletons are rare, isolated teeth can flesh out our understanding of ancient reptile-dominated ecosystems, according to a study published ...