Long before the carnage began, the Cretaceous picked up where the Jurassic ... Magnolia, ficus, and sassafras quickly outnumbered ferns, conifers, gingkoes, and cycads. Much of this rich life ...

You might know the Cretaceous Period for big animals such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, or for being the end of the age of dinosaurs. But what was the world like in the millions of years ...

This is the Cretaceous Resinous Interval. Between 84 million and 137 million years ago, resin-oozing conifers thrived across ...

Unlike conifers, which produce seeds in open cones ... As a result, modern paleobotany has undergone a boom not unlike the Cretaceous flower explosion itself. Now old-style fossil hunters with ...

Our new Evolution Garden in front of our iconic building includes lots of plants like those found in the Jurassic and Cretaceous, as well as rocks and fossils from those periods. As you wander through ...