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 ...

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.

"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 ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West ...

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 ...

Using seismic data, University of Maryland geologist Jingchuan Wang and colleagues have found ancient ocean slabs hiding deep in Earth's interior, which could be contributing to the spread, and they ...

Nowadays, dinosaurs are widely used as animated, fictional characters in books and movies! In reality, these reptiles appeared on Earth between 243 and 233.23 million years ago. After the ...

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 ...

After 72 million years underground, palaeontologists near Grande Prairie in Alberta, Canada, have unearthed a 600lb (272kg) skull of a Pachyrhinosaurus, a plant-eating dinosaur that roamed Alberta ...

Sinosauropteryx, feathered dinosaur model. Credits: Ghedoghedo, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons As paleontologists discover more about dinosaurs, they are finding that their feathers were used for ...

New theropod and ornithopod dinosaur tracks from the Early Cretaceous period in Australia’s Wonthaggi Formation illustrate a rich polar dinosaur ecosystem, highlighting the adaptability and diversity ...

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 ...