Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that dinosaur diversity was declining before the asteroid struck 66 million years ...

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for millions of years, and even today they often rule the box office when great movies are made about them. When most people think of dinosaurs, they picture giants like the ...

Sixty-five million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. They dominated each time period they were in, becoming the kings of ...

The arrow doesn't just go in one direction." Dinosaurs became extinct after a large asteroid slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula. Scientists looking for evidence of the asteroid saw that the rocks ...

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 ...

When it comes to dinosaur extinction, the working idea is what’s called the bolide impact. This is the hypothesis that a meteorite came to the surface of the Earth, hit the Earth and led to the ...

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 ...

Credit: pexels When the asteroid hit, most dinosaurs were finished, but a few small, feathered theropods slipped through the chaos. Their size meant less food was needed, and their varied diets kept ...