at says #Cretaceous Neighbo Peludo, fino y suave: toca al vecino cretácic Mammal fur Although this an opossum, it might be similar similar from #Didelphodon, opossum-siz mammal that lived same time SUE. the hetime Didelphodon was

https://www.storyangles.com/post/dinosaur-dominance
Dinosaur Dominance
(230–65 million years ago)
Earth once teemed with creatures that roamed the lands, swam the seas, and soared through the skies.
#dinosaur #life #StoryAngles #Jurassic #cretaceous #Mesozoic

#PaleoMori day 31! Happy Halloween! Had a lot of fun with the challenge this year and I definitely feel like I improved a lot. I already can't wait for next year, but there's an entire year's worth of art to fill in inbetween. Here's to me being good about that. #paleoart #cretaceous #dinosaur

🦖⚡ A new study published in Nature definitively settles a decades-long paleontological debate by confirming Nanotyrannus lancensis as a separate species from Tyrannosaurus rex, not just a juvenile.

The #discovery describes a fully grown, 5-meter-tall predator with a different bone-growth pattern and hunting strategy – prioritizing agility and speed over the brute force that made its larger T. rex cousin famous – suggesting #dinosaurs maintained healthy ecological diversity right up until the extinction event.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/tiny-t-rex-new-species/

#paleontology #science #fossils #nature #evolution #cretaceous #trex #research

In my new YouTube #video, I tell the #hypothetical story of a #Histiostomatidae #mite that lived its #lifehistory in the #dung heap of the #dinosaur #Edmontosaurus #annectens during the Late #Cretaceous. It developed #fungivorously within the dung and, when conditions deteriorated, was #transported by #flies to a new habitat (phoresis). All images and footage created with #AI assistance, except photos of free-living mites.
© #StefanFWirth 2025

Video
https://youtu.be/gzv-TZmU5G4?si=zrTLfrC96k3KEGqr

Pics
© S.F. Wirth

#PaleoMori day 27. The croc mime. Wait *checks notes* The croc mimic. Look, scutes! Based the colors off its appearance in The Marshall Children's Dinosaur Encyclopedia. I think a lot of people into dinosaurs my age grew up on, if not that book specifically, the illustrations found in it. #paleoart #cretaceous #dinosaur

#PaleoMori Day 26. STAND TOGETHER. Based the colors on Aladar from Disney's Dinosaur. God, I'm tired. #paleoart #cretaceous #dinosaur

#Dinosaurs were thriving until #asteroid struck, research suggests
About 66 million years ago, during the late #Cretaceous period, a huge space rock crashed into Earth, triggering a #massextinction that wiped out all dinosaurs except birds. However, some experts have argued the dinosaurs were already in decline. Now researchers say the dating of a rock formation in #NewMexico throws doubt on that idea, suggesting dinosaurs were thriving until the fateful impact.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/23/dinosaurs-asteroid-struck-research

#PaloeMori day 24. The OTHER horned dinosaur. Based the colors on @kromatika.bsky.social on the request of she and @litasea.bsky.social. Check out the concert Kromer helped set up at @vtmilky.bsky.social's twitch channel tomorrow!! Edit: I didn't forget extra tags you did.
#paleoart #cretaceous #dinosaur

Earth’s 8th Continent Buried Under The Pacific Finally Mapped By Scientists [Zealandia / Te Riu-a-Māui - “Finally”? ~wink~]
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https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/earth-8th-continent-finally-mapped/ <-- shared (somewhat) technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2023TC007961 <-- shared 2023 paper
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https://youtu.be/DDbc4K7bgnA?si=EZFmmPFybPLLyND7 <-- shared animation
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"KEY POINTS
• Basalts and pebbly to cobbly sandstones have been dredged from the Fairway Ridge, Coral Sea
• Dating of the rocks and interpretation of magnetic anomalies allow mapping of major geological units across North Zealandia
• This work completes offshore reconnaissance geological mapping of the entire 5 million square km Zealandia continent…”
#geology #doggerland #Zealandia #TeRiuaMaui #godwana #godwanaland #cretaceous #mapping #geologicmapping #spatialanalysis #model #modeling #NewZealand #SouthPacific #continent #sampling #sediment #dredging #petrography #geochemistry #isotope #analyses #research #cenozoic #intraplate #platetectonics #tectonics #eocene #remotesensing #geophysics #geomagnetism

El Antarctosaurus giganteus fue un dinosaurio saurópodo del Cretácico tardío (83-70 MdA) conocido principalmente por sus dos grandes pero gráciles fémures de 2,35 metros, que permiten estimar un tamaño en torno a los 30 metros de longitud. 📷Gunnar Bivens #Cretacico #Cretaceous

Running a bit late, so it's #FossilFriday on a Monday––and is it ever a good one!

Feng et al. report the first #fossil record of Cheliferidae (Pseudoscorpion #arachnids) from mid-#Cretaceous Kachin #amber! #BugSky

Learn more about these fascinating creatures right here!

🦂 https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.70018

The death of #dinosaurs reengineered Earth https://news.umich.edu/your-ecosystem-engineer-was-a-dinosaur/

#Dinosaur extinction can explain continental facies shifts at the #Cretaceous-#Paleogene boundary https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02673-8

"their sudden #extinction led to wide scale changes in landscapes—including the shape of #rivers—and these changes are reflected in the geologic record... the sudden disappearance of dinosaurs allowed #forests to flourish, helping to trap sediment, build point bars and structure rivers."

#Cretaceous (IPA: /krɪˈteɪʃəs/ krih-TAY-shəss)[2] is a geological period that lasted from about 143.1 to 66 Ma (million years ago). It is the third and final period of the #MesozoicEra,

Therizinosaurus
This is ma 2nd fav dinosaur :] Fun Fact: They're plant-eaters but they use long claws to slash other dinosaurs to death.
The Watermark is not mine it's credits to some1 who made it!
#animal #animals #penup #drawing #dinosaurs #dinosaur #jungle #therizinosaurus #therizinosaurs #extinctanimals #paleoart #plants #ginkgos #sparkles #cretaceous #prehistoric

RainbowClaw!
This is RainbowClaw, ma ancient rainbow utahraptor. She is da only dino that has DNA with rainbow physicals. She d!ed during Cretaceous extinction. #dino #dinosaur #dinosauroc #stars #bright #vibrantcolours #glimmer #magic #penup #rainbow #sparkle #prehistoric #utahraptor #cretaceous #blue #colors #raptor #soshinysostrong #brutallymurderme #imthealphaimtheleaderimtheonetotrust

Utahraptor
I loaf this dinosaurs they're ma fav dinos but I loaf all raptors but Utahraptor is da most fav for me. I drew the Chicxulub asteroid near in da moon that fell in Earth and Crashed to Yucantán Peninsula in Mexico in 66 million years ago and Its da worst mass extinction ever happended that I hearded before.
#animal #animals #penup #drawing #dinosaurs #dinosaur #jungle #utahraptor #raptor #extinctanimals #paleoart #night #cretaceous #prehistoric

El Achillobator giganticus fue un dinosaurio dromaeosaurido del Cretácico tardío (96-89 MdA), es decir, un "raptor" y uno de los más grandes, con 4,5-5 m de longitud. A diferencias de otros, tenía una constitución robusta, con extremidades relativamente cortas. 📷PaleoNeolitic #cretacico #cretaceous

El Avisaurus fue un ave depredadora del Cretácico tardío (68-66 MdA), relativamente grande respecto a otras aves contemporáneas, que debió vivir en zonas húmedas. Por los restos que se conocen, debió tener unas garras potentes. 📷Vile Sinkkonen #cretacico #cretaceous

El Kostensuchus atrox fue un crocodilomorfo del Cretácico tardío de unos 2,7-3,5 metros de longitud. Su tamaño y su dieta carnívora diferenciaban a este depredador semiacuático de su familia de peirosáuridos omnívoros. 📷LiterallyMiguel #Cretacico #cretaceous