On the final day of the Cretaceous period, some 66 million years ago, Earth was teeming with a dazzling variety of dinosaurs.

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the ...

Spread the loveIn a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed 132-million-year-old dinosaur tracks along the picturesque coast of South Africa. This remarkable find has the potential to ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

A team of researchers in China has successfully dated dinosaur eggs unearthed at the Qinglongshan site in the Yunyang Basin, central China, revealing they were deposited nearly 85 million years ago.

The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil record from that time rather than a genuine ...

So much has been written about the extinction of the dinosaurs that finding anything new to say is a tall task. By mid-2006, the understanding has remained virtually unchanged for a decade or more: a ...

The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird,Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs forcompany. Sixty-six ...