Learn how the emergence of new plankton species started life's swift recovery after the asteroid impact that killed most ...

Fossils reveal dinosaurs were flourishing in diverse ecosystems right up until the asteroid impact ended their reign.

Among today’s birds, the species most closely resembling their dinosaur ancestors are large, flightless ground-dwellers like ostriches, emus (pictured above), cassowaries, rheas, and kiwis. Some of ...

There might still be dinosaurs living on Earth today — if not for the giant asteroid. It’s a long-debated issue, but now researchers say the idea Dinosaurs were in decline before the Chicxulub ...

WACO, Texas — A new study published on Thursday, co-authored by researchers from Baylor University, New Mexico State University, the Smithsonian Institution and several international collaborators, ...

A site in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico is providing a rare glimpse into the last days of the dinosaurs.Rocks and fossils at the Naashoibito Member site show an ecosystem that was ...

The evolution of life on planet Earth has occurred gradually over time, but it has not always been a peaceful process. Life has had to face cataclysmic environmental changes, and sometimes that ...

It had quite an impact — striking with the force of 10 million atomic bombs. Sixty-six million years ago, the asteroid that slammed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula caused a mass extinction ...

Massive volcanic eruptions did not cause the extinction of dinosaurs, according to a new study. Volcanoes on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the ...

The Triassic-Jurassic Extinction Event: How Dinosaurs Took Over Roughly 201 million years ago, the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event wiped out about 76% of all marine and land species on Earth. This ...