The Cretaceous Period lasted for nearly 80 million years. ... The UK's famous White Cliffs of Dover are just one of many Late Cretaceous chalk deposits. Chalk is laid down in marine environments, and ...

The Cretaceous period lasted approximately 79 million years, ... The name comes from "creta," the Latin word for chalk, because of widespread chalk deposits dating from the period, ...

The Cretaceous Period lasted for nearly 80 million years. Discover what the climate was like in this geological period, where the continents were and what animals and plants lived on them. Find out ...

Local fossil hunter Peter Bennicke spotted the fossilized remains in a chunk of chalk in Denmark’s Stevns Klint (or Cliffs of Stevns), on the island of Zealand.

In the Cretaceous period, ... And yet, scientists say, vomit that old has been found in the Cliffs of Stevns, a white chalk cliff and UNESCO World Heritage site on the Danish island of Zealand.

Bennicke discovered the regurgitalite after splitting open a piece of chalk found at the site. Inside was a strange ...

The chalk surrounding the fossil allowed scientists to date it to 66 million years ago, the end of the Cretaceous period that would conclude soon after as a result of the mass extinction event ...

The Cretaceous Period is the last geologic time period in the Mesozoic Era (the Mesozoic runs from roughly 250 million to 65 million years ago). During this period, dinosaurs dominated the ...

The pile of 66-million-year-old, fossilized, regurgitated sea lilies was dated to the Cretaceous era. Indigestion, it seems, spans the furthest reaches of time.

When he took the fragments to be examined at the Museum of East Zealand, they confirmed the vomit could be dated to the end of the Cretaceous period, 66 million years ago.