The Caribbean region can be seen as a kind of natural laboratory in which, over millions of years, plate tectonics resulted in the transfer of a subduction zone from the Pacific to the Atlantic ...

The Cretaceous Period witnessed a remarkable diversification of marine reptiles, among which plesiosaurs featured prominently. These secondarily aquatic reptiles adapted to a range of ecological ...

Dating to the Cretaceous period, the geological era between 145.5 and 66 million years ago, the sedimentary rocks far underneath East Texas and Louisiana contain significant undiscovered energy ...