Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 150 million years. Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans and their earliest ancestors have been on the planet, it wouldn’t be ...

A new study reveals the Chicxulub meteorite impact also created an underground hydrothermal system that sustained life for 8 ...

Explore the events surrounding the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, focusing on the cataclysmic incident that changed life ...

Birds are the only dinosaurs that survived the devastating asteroid impact 66 million years ago. The songbirds you see today ...

It had quite an impact — striking with the force of 10 million atomic bombs. Sixty-six million years ago, the asteroid that slammed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula caused a mass extinction ...

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 ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – One thing that northwestern New Mexico is known for is lots of dinosaur fossils. Previously, paleontologists estimated that the fossils in the Birsti Badlands were 70 million years ...

Learn more about Qreiya 3 Lagerstätte, a fossil-rich site that could help fill key gaps in marine evolution.

Among today’s birds, the species most closely resembling their dinosaur ancestors are large, flightless ground-dwellers like ostriches, emus (pictured above), cassowaries, rheas, and kiwis. Some of ...