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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WACO, Texas — A new study published on Thursday, co-authored by researchers from Baylor University, New Mexico State University, the Smithsonian Institution and several international collaborators, ...

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 ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Earth and changed life forever. The impact wiped out all non-avian ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — The extinction of the dinosaurs may be ancient history, but that history continues to be rewritten, thanks in part to a professor at New Mexico State University. As Chad Brummett ...

Massive volcanic eruptions did not cause the extinction of dinosaurs, according to a new study. Volcanoes on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the ...

It’s often called “the time it rained for two million years.” That’s not quite right, but the real story may be even stranger ...

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 ...

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