May 23rd is World Turtle Day. It’s the perfect time to celebrate what makes these creatures so amazing and focus on what you ...

A Tohoku University-led team said it has found in Hokkaido a layer showing the asteroid impact linked to the dinosaur ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...

The end-Cretaceous extinction created space in the ecosystem for birds, but also for mammals. Mammals first evolved from ancestors called therapsids during the late Triassic Period. These were tiny ...

The Cretaceous Era—roughly 145 to 66 million years ago—was the last hurrah of the dinosaurs. A massive asteroid impact brought them to a violent end, but there’s more to the story. The Cretaceous ...

The asteroid that smacked into our planet about 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary may have been bad news for dinosaurs, but it was good news for fungi. According to new ...

Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction thanks to their lifestyle. Reading time 2 minutes The end-Cretaceous ...

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 meteorite hit Earth about 66 million years ago near what today is the Yucatán peninsula, causing widespread destruction and death. But almost simultaneously, intense volcanism covered a vast area of ...

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 ...