The small, plant-eating Lystrosaurus thrived post-extinction, while its predators suffocated to death. Its eggs played a ...

This cleared the stage for dinosaurs to take over for the next 135 million years. This extinction was connected with massive volcanic eruptions caused by the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea. The ...

Dinosaurs' extinction "re-engineered" Earth's surface, according to new research. The reptiles had such an "immense" impact on the planet that their sudden exit led to wide-scale changes in landscapes ...

A recent study led by geosciences professor Gerta Keller challenges the most commonly-held belief for the mass-extinction of dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago. The ...

When the big asteroid hit Mexico 66 million years ago, it set off wildfires, tsunamis and massive clouds of dust that darkened the skies, killed much of Earth’s plant life and triggered a chain of ...

On the final day of the Cretaceous period, some 66 million years ago, Earth was teeming with a dazzling variety of dinosaurs.

Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Story of Birds, recommends 10 dinosaur books to dig into ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the story of the dinosaurs as it has never been told before,” narrates Morgan Freeman in the opening of Neflix’s The ...