A thin clay layer in Italy, discovered by a scientist and his geologist son, revealed an unusual iridium spike. This rare ...

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 ...

A thin layer of clay in Italy, unusually rich in iridium, revolutionized the understanding of dinosaur extinction. This rare element, abundant in meteorites, pointed to a massive extraterrestrial ...

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 ...

For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive asteroid or powerful volcanic eruptions. But now, researchers from Dartmouth ...

The extinction of the largest dinosaurs to walk the Earth may have played a critical role in creating an environment that helped fruits evolve, thereby indirectly shaping the evolution of our own ...

What did a Tohoku University-led team discover in Hokkaido? A) A fossil bed containing the last surviving dinosaurs in ...

Move over, TikTokers. It's time to shine a spotlight on some of the earliest influencers around: dinosaurs. When these ecosystem engineers were in... Love fruit? Thank dinosaur mass extinction Move ...

The researchers are not the first to propose that the space rock belonged to a group of asteroids that formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter. Their findings, however, strengthen the case thanks to a rare ...

How closely have you been following events in Japan? Try The Mainichi News Quiz for May 26 to test your news knowledge. Ready ...

A badly mangled dinosaur skull, once forgotten in a drawer, turned out to be a rare and important discovery. Reconstructed by a Virginia Tech student, it revealed a new species of early carnivorous ...