When you think of dinosaurs, do you still imagine giant gray scaly beasts that went extinct? Get ready to have your mind ...

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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 ...

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

So in one way, dinosaurs never went extinct; they just turned into birds. However, in the stricter sense of the word, dinosaurs had a whole combination of anatomical and behavioral characteristics ...

How different would our world be if dinosaurs were alive today? The answer is: very. Prehistoric in the present? We all love Jurassic Park, but a dinosaur theme park is (thankfully) unrealistic. Still ...

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

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 ...

Watch a mess of marine iguanas for a bit and you’ll start to notice them doing something strange. Every now and then one will ...

One of the most devastating extinctions in Earth's history is best known for what didn't die—dinosaurs. But the end-Triassic ...

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 ...