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 ...

While the origin of flowering plants may go back as far as the Triassic Period, we don't see much evidence of them in the fossil record at the start of the Cretaceous. However, by the end of the ...

Professor Janis said, "The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any ...

One of the astonishing facts of palaeobotany has been the sudden appearance of Flowering Plants in late Cretaceous times. Dicotyledonous stems are now known, however, from lower Cretaceous rocks ...

3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous ... period, about 80 million years later, oceans filled yawning gaps between isolated continents shaped much as they are today. Flowering ...

which helped increase the spread of flowering plants. And mammals now included tree climbers, ground dwellers and even predators of small dinosaurs. Sea levels rose and fell repeatedly during the ...