Rocks formed immediately before and after non-avian dinosaurs went extinct are strikingly different, and now, tens of millions of years later, scientists think they’ve identified the culprit—and it ...

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for millions of years, and even today they often rule the box office when great movies are made about them. When most people think of dinosaurs, they picture giants like the ...

When it comes to dinosaur extinction, the working idea is what’s called the bolide impact. This is the hypothesis that a meteorite came to the surface of the Earth, hit the Earth and led to the ...

The arrow doesn't just go in one direction." Dinosaurs became extinct after a large asteroid slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula. Scientists looking for evidence of the asteroid saw that the rocks ...

Credit: pexels When the asteroid hit, most dinosaurs were finished, but a few small, feathered theropods slipped through the chaos. Their size meant less food was needed, and their varied diets kept ...

A site in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico is providing a rare glimpse into the last days of the dinosaurs.Rocks and fossils at the Naashoibito Member site show an ecosystem that was ...

Of all the mysteries surrounding dinosaurs, none has sparked more debate than how their era ended—was it a gradual decline or a sudden catastrophe? A new study led by Andrew Flynn of New Mexico State ...

When the dinosaurs went extinct, the planet didn’t become peaceful. A massive power vacuum opened almost overnight. In South ...

One of the most surprising effects of the cascade of changes was...fruit? One of the most surprising effects of the cascade of changes that played out in the wake of dinosaur extinction may have been ...

It won't be a massive asteroid that dooms these Seattle dinosaurs. The sky won’t darken into a lethal haze of vaporized rock and soot. But the Pacific Science Center’s animatronic dinosaurs are going ...