Dinosaur Decline in the Late Cretaceous May 2, 2012 | USAToday.com Researchers have determined that some dinosaur sub-groups were in decline long before the Late Cretaceous... The Extinction Before the Dinosaurs March 26, 2013 | National Science Foundation "More than 200 million years ago, a massive extinction decimated 76 percent of marine and... Oil and Gas from Fractures in the Austin Chalk December 27, 2012 | United States Geological Survey "The Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk forms a low-permeability, onshore Gulf of Mexico reservoir that produces... Ouarkziz Impact Crater May 9, 2012 | NASA Earth Observatory "The Ouarkziz Impact Crater is located in northwestern Algeria, close to the border with Morocco.... Ecological Modeling and the Fossil Record January 10, 2013 | Southern Methodist University "Carbon dioxide levels in fossil soils from the Late Jurassic confirm that climate, vegetation and... Vitrinite Reflectance Data for the Wind River Basin February 19, 2013 | USGS The United States Geological Survey has published: New Vitrinite Reflectance Data for the Wind... Mass Extinction Can Be a Slow Event February 7, 2012 | National Science Foundation The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of... Human Adaptation to High Altitude January 24, 2012 | University of Pennsylvania Over many generations the Amhara people of the Ethiopian Highlands have adapted to living at... |