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

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 ...

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 ...

The discovery of traces of an asteroid in Hokkaido is the first-ever confirmation of such traces in Japan, according to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Move over, TikTokers. It's time to shine a spotlight on some of the earliest influencers around: dinosaurs. When these ecosystem engineers were in... Love fruit? Thank dinosaur mass extinction Move ...

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 student unearthed a Triceratops skull fragment in North Dakota's Hell Creek Formation. The fossil, named Alice, was found ...

Learn more about the newly identified species from the Arctic that were part of one of the longest living mammal groups on ...