When the big asteroid hit Mexico 66 million years ago, it set off wildfires, tsunamis and massive clouds of dust that darkened the skies, killed much of Earth’s plant life and triggered a chain of ...

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 ...

An assembly framework and video to learn about about dinosaurs, paleontology, and the ancient natural history of Earth.

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

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 ...

Even though the dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years, modern researchers argue that there is still proof that ...