Everyone knows what a bird is – and pretty much everyone knows what a dinosaur is. But not everyone is aware that birds evolved from dinosaurs approximately 160 million years ago. In fact, birds and ...

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 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 ...

(CN) — Millions of years ago ancient reptiles, amphibians and mammals placidly occupied the top of Earth’s ecosystem until omnivorous dinosaurs usurped them. According to new research, the key to ...

For decades, dinosaurs were thought to be permanently lost to time, but new genetic experiments suggest that assumption may ...

My son hugs a large, stuffed dinosaur. Source: Kachine Blackwell, used with permission. Lately, I’ve been learning a lot about dinosaurs. Or, I should say, my three-year-old son has been learning a ...

Paleontologist Ken Lacovara is founder of a new museum and fossil park in New Jersey where visitors can see how dinosaurs lived 66 million years ago before an asteroid wiped out 75% of life on earth.

Most people have heard how the dinosaurs went extinct. Around 66 million years ago, a meteor likely struck the earth, killing off 80% of all species and taking non-avian dinosaurs with it. But what ...