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Cretaceous Period: Media
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Findings about a small bird have scientists rethinking dino diets.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Hell Creek was home to T. rex, Triceratops, and now…these...
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Distribution of landmasses, mountainous regions, shallow seas, and deep ocean basins...
Adapted from C.R. Scotese, The University of Texas at Arlington
The stratigraphic chart of geologic time.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Source: International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS)
Reconstruction of squidlike belemnoid cephalopods from the Cretaceous Period.
Courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, New York
Skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex constructed from specimens discovered in 1902...
Neg. No. 338590 Photo. Blackwell, Finnin, Chesek; Courtesy Department Library Services, American Museum of Natural History, New York City
Triceratops skeleton.
Courtesy, Library Services Department, American Museum of Natural History, New York City; photograph, E.M. Fulda (Neg. No. 310434)
The skeleton and restoration of wings of a Pteranodon dinosaur.
Courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, New York
The Chicxulub crater at the northwestern point of the Yucatán Peninsula was formed...
NASA/JPL
Chicxulub crater, on the northern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, in a...
V.L. Sharpton, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; NASA
The Cretaceous Period and its subdivisions.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Source: International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS)
Map showing the age of selected regions of the ocean floor. Chronological measurements...
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The diversity of marine animal families since late Precambrian time. The data for...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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