Late Cretaceous

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A New Genus of Troodontid Dinosaur from New Mexico

Palaeontologists have named a new species of theropod dinosaur from New Mexico. The dinosaur, Dinevenator robustus, lived around 73 million years ago (Campanian faunal stage of the Late Cretaceous). Researchers identified the dinosaur from a fossil skull bone (a frontal) found in north-western New Mexico. It represents a new genus and species of troodontid. Troodontids

13/08/2026 everythingdinosaur

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may not have been the one scientists imagined

For more than forty years, scientists have known that an asteroid caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. But what type of asteroid was it exactly? Thanks to a new method based on nickel isotopes, researchers believe they have finally identified the family of...

17/07/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated

This bone forgotten in a drawer for 40 years has just revealed the very first dinosaur discovered in Antarctica!

For almost forty years, it remained forgotten in a drawer in the British Antarctic Survey. This fossil, discovered in Antarctica in 1985, has just been identified as the very first dinosaur fossil ever unearthed on the white continent. A discovery which also sheds light on...

01/07/2026 futura-terre ⚙ Auto-translated

Scientists Formally Describe the First Dinosaur Fossil Found in Antarctica

Scientists have formally described the first dinosaur fossil found in Antarctica. The remarkable discovery is a single vertebra from a Late Cretaceous titanosaur. Although the fossil was collected more than forty years ago, researchers have only recently confirmed its identity.  The first dinosaur fossil found in Antarctica described in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.

29/06/2026 everythingdinosaur

CollectA Deluxe Edmontosaurus Model Feeding on Some Conifers

Thank you Caldey for sending us a photograph of your CollectA Deluxe Edmontosaurus feeding in the garden.  The dinosaur looks very much at home munching on some conifers.  Palaeontologists know from hadrosaur stomach contents that these Late Cretaceous herbivores did feed on conifers.  It is a delightfully composed photograph.  The viewing angle gives the impression

23/06/2026 everythingdinosaur

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Cretaceous Period

Cenomanian

100.5000 – 93.9000

Turonian

93.9000 – 89.8000

Coniacian

89.8000 – 85.7000

Santonian

85.7000 – 83.6000

Campanian

83.6000 – 72.2000

Maastrichtian

72.2000 – 66.0000