Rokfaith (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia Commons The name Cretaceous comes from the Latin 'creta' which means chalk. It's named for the large quantities of chalk rock laid down at this time in Western ...

The Cretaceous period was the last and longest ... The name comes from "creta," the Latin word for chalk, because of widespread chalk deposits dating from the period, according to the National ...

Geology students from Telford College have returned from a fact-finding expedition to England’s ‘Jurassic Coast’.

Abelisaurids were apex predators during the Cretaceous period ... They’re even considering new methods for excavating in chalk formations. Abelisaurid dinosaurs were way more common in Europe ...

A selection of fossilized micrometeorites recovered from Cretaceous chalk. These particles were initially composed of Fe-Ni metal but during atmospheric entry they oxidized to form Fe-oxide minerals.

All of Earth’s creatures have the potential to slowly fossilize, making them discoverable after millions of years to be studied and entered into the annals of science. That includes those that ...

After the Cretaceous Seas retreated, this region became grasslands, and for millions of years, decomposing plants and the nutrients they contained built up on top of the chalk layer. The result ...

a white chalk cliff and UNESCO World Heritage site on the Danish island of Zealand. During the Cretaceous period, a shark — ...

which are hard to digest meaning they would then "regurgitate all the chalk bits", he explained. "This find is a unique glimpse into the everyday situation in the bottom of the Cretaceous sea ...

"In other words, Europe was a huge archipelago made up of several islands during the Late Cretaceous. However, Qunkasaura belongs to another group of sauropods, represented in the Iberian ...