Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that dinosaur diversity was declining before the asteroid struck 66 million years ...

Dinosaurs have always been around in the human imagination. Whether it is through blockbusters like Jurassic Park or contemporary attempts at de-extincting animals like Woolly Mammoths, Dodos, and ...

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 ...

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Massive volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the dinosaurs. This phase of active volcanism took place in a period just before ...

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 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 team of international researchers has uncovered new evidence that the Chicxulub meteorite impact, ...

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While volcanism caused a temporary cold period, the effects had already worn off thousands of years before the meteorite, the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event, impacted. Massive ...