Cretaceous Quote by Steve Brusatte

“During the final 20 million years of the Cretaceous, tyrannosaurs flourished, ruling the river valleys, lakeshores, floodplains, forests, and deserts of North America and…

— Steve Brusatte

“The tyrannosaurus looked a little shamefaced - but only a little, for dinosaurs would rather drown in tar than admit they're wrong. That unfortunate…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Did you know that the Stegosaurus lived further away from the Tyrannosaurus Rex than we are from the Tyrannosaurus Rex in time?

— Jonah Peretti

“The Tyrannosaurus rex was a creature of the jungle. She lived in the deepest forests and swamps of North America, not long after it…

— Douglas Preston

“The tyrannosaurus looked a little shamefaced - but only a little, for dinosaurs would rather drown in tar than admit they're wrong. That unfortunate…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Mr. Lockery—my biology teacher—says if dinosaurs were magically brought forward in time today, we’d have nothing to worry about. Dogs, wolves, and bears would…

— Robert J. Sawyer

I, as a storyteller, was asking questions no one in science had apparently asked. What happens in a nest of tyrannosaurs? They're precocial, meaning…

— Stephen R. Bissette

“(Montana may never be considered the epicenter of modern life, but about 65 to 70 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period, it…

— Patricia Schultz

“A mere sixty-five million years ago (less than two percent of Earth’s past), a ten-trillion-ton asteroid hit what is now the Yucatan Peninsula and…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I didn't know this before, but as it turns out, Tyrannosaurs can really haul ass.

— Jim Butcher

Dinosaur fossils were placed in rocks by prankster God just to make human beings think the world is older than it is.

— Bill Hicks

“Understanding how a dinosaur’s senses worked is difficult. This is because the parts that make up its brains have not fossilized well.   It…

— Kay de Silva