Flowering plants were spreading across the landscape ... of more than half the planet's species at the end of the Cretaceous remains a matter of scientific debate. But the shifted continents ...

Our dinosaur expert Dr Susie Maidment and fossil plant expert Dr Paul Kenrick explore what the world was like back then and the animals and plants that called our planet home. The Cretaceous is a ...

The findings reveal that insects developed modern patterns of herbivory long before flowering plants flourished, upending a ...

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 Early Cretaceous period was a significant time for the evolution of Gnetales, a group of seed plants that includes modern genera such as Ephedra, Gnetum, and Welwitschia. Recent research has ...

For months, scientists conclude, dense clouds of dust blocked the sun's rays, darkening and chilling Earth to deadly levels for most plants and ... than average in the Cretaceous/Tertiary ...

Other groups of organisms also diversified. The first snakes evolved during this time, and by the end of the Cretaceous, flowering plants were a much more common part of Earth's plant life. Various ...

The origin of fruit is somewhat murky; the earliest known angiosperms, or flowering plants, are dated to the Early Cretaceous (around 135 million years ago) based on fossil evidence, but some ...