Late Cretaceous | Boneblogger: Science and the outdoors

Fossil tells a new tail

Greg — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:12:59 +0000

Mosasaurs lived in the world’s oceans during the Late Cretaceous, the last Period from the Age of Dinosaurs (see the geologic time scale). They are close relatives of modern snakes and lizards, and during the Cretaceous they become fully aquatic sea monsters, growing to tremendous sizes, and were the top predators of their environments. Their […]

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Shark bites in the Cretaceous Sea

Greg — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:12:03 +0000

One of the most exciting things in paleontology is being able to definitively establish the interaction of two species from the fossil record. It is thrilling to picture a moment in time, millions of years ago, when two animals were at the same place, at the same time, and be able from fossil evidence to […]

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Bonnerichthys

Greg — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:30:30 +0000

In modern oceans, the very largest organisms specialize in filter feeding, or living on the very small plankton in the water. (Read more about the filter feeding niche). Up until now, it has appeared to researcher that during the Age of Dinosaurs, when the oceans were dominated by large, toothy reptiles, there were no marine […]

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