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 ...

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 ...

The findings suggest that mammals were adapting to terrestrial life well before the end of the Cretaceous period ... evidence that the spread of flowering plants, known as angiosperms, created ...

In the Cretaceous period, the dinosaurs dominated the land ... New research has shown that flowering plants escaped ...

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 ...

Long before the asteroid hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, many mammals had already started living on the ground, according to new research led by the University of Bristol. This surprising ...