It's well known that the reign of the dinosaurs came to an end when a giant asteroid smashed into Earth 66 million years ago. But a new study suggests that this huge asteroid wasn't alone.

The cloud of dust from the impact blotted out the sunlight, causing a dramatic die-off of plants and animals, including the dinosaurs (except for birds). But this destruction and decay appear to ...

The extinction of the dinosaurs has been a hotly debated topic for decades, and whether it was an asteroid, a volcanic eruption or even poisonous plant species. But researchers have found hard ...

It's a dinosaur that roamed Alberta's badlands more than 70 million years ago, sporting a big, bumpy, bony head the size of a baby elephant. On Wednesday, paleontologists near Grande Prairie ...

An ancient slab of seafloor that was around when Earth’s earliest known dinosaurs emerged, has been discovered beneath the Pacific Ocean, where it has seemingly hovered in a sort of mid-dive for ...

New research into ancient fossil tracks discovered near Melbourne last year proves that dinosaurs lived at the poles. The discovery of 24 dinosaur footprints on Victoria’s Bass Coast, 130km south of ...

If dinosaurs died, how come there are birds? Caiden S., age 9, Wylie, Texas Everyone knows what a bird is – and pretty much everyone knows what a dinosaur is. But not everyone is aware that ...

"At the end of Cretaceous, dinosaurs did not do very well, but fungi experienced a heyday." Many of the fungi that proliferated during this period likely feasted on decaying leaf litter ...

Volcanoes were still erupting on the moon during Earth’s dinosaur age, new research suggests, much more recently than ...

The cataclysm not only wiped out almost all the dinosaurs, only leaving beaked birds behind, but also triggered extinctions and ecological collapses the world over. Survivors of the heat and fire ...

Learning more about emus is all well and good, but van Bijlert hopes that the research can also inform scientists’ understanding of birds’ long-lost ancestors, dinosaurs. He suspects that in ...