The researchers began to suspect changes in geology was somehow related to the mass extinction of dinosaurs - called the Cretaceous-Paleogene, or K-Pg, mass extinction. They started to examine what ...

The end of the dinosaurs was not just a spectacular finish, it was a brutal reset of life on Earth. In the geological instant ...

Fossils reveal dinosaurs were flourishing in diverse ecosystems right up until the asteroid impact ended their reign.

Everyone knows what a bird is – and pretty much everyone knows what a dinosaur is. But not everyone is aware that birds evolved from dinosaurs approximately 160 million years ago. In fact, birds and ...

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’ extinction “re-engineered” Earth’s surface, according to new research. The reptiles had such an “immense” impact on the planet that their sudden exit led to wide scale changes in landscapes ...

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 ...

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 ...