Using an advanced fossil discovery technique on Late Cretaceous rocks from Japan, researchers found elusive and ancient squid beak fossils proving that squids thrived while dinosaurs died.

In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past ...

That puts Megatooth, and probably some of its ancestors, at the top step of the prehistoric food chain when it stalked the seas during the Cenozoic era, which began about 66 million years ago and ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

Biomass reveals the real impact and energy flow of life in an ecosystem, like knowing not just the cast of a play, but who ...

With dinosaurs largely extinct, ecological niches were left vacant, paving the way for the rise of mammals and avian species. These surviving groups diversified and evolved rapidly in the post-K-T ...

The curious minds at What If take a journey through the Earth during the Cenozoic era. President Trump addresses the nation ...

A newly discovered dinosaur species,Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, is turning heads in the world of paleontology. This ...

The study of biogeography and paleoecology during the Mesozoic-Cenozoic era provides essential insights into how past ...

When most people picture flying dinosaurs, the creatures they imagine with large, fleshy wings are actually non-dinosaur reptiles that lived in the same era, such as the pterosaurs.