Some of their dinosaur-like traits are their bone structure, strong leg muscles for bipedal walking, sharp claws, and the ability to defend themselves by kicking. The Triassic-Jurassic Extinction ...

couple of Brachiosaurus altithorax and a flock of Pterosaurs in a scenic Late Jurassic landscape© dottedhippo/iStock via Getty Images The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological ...

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 ...

Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden extinction led to wide-scale changes in landscapes—including the shape of rivers—and these changes are reflected in the geologic record, ...

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 ...