2+ hour, 20+ min ago  (602+ words) Along a meandering river in a "warm and arid region that is now Thailand roughly 113 million years ago, a plant-eating behemoth almost 90 feet (27 meters) long browsed on the treetops without much fear of predators due to its sheer size. This…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (363+ words) SAPPORO - Giant octopuses that lived between 100 million and 72 million years ago may have reached a total length of up to 19 meters, making them among the largest invertebrates known to science, and were likely apex ocean predators, according to new research…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (13+ words) Japan Wire by KYODO NEWS...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (229+ words) TOKYO - A research team at a Japanese university has found that the world's oceans during the Cretaceous period, roughly 70 million to 100 million years ago, were dominated by squid. In a report published recently in the journal Science by the researchers…...