Dinosaurs are among the most majestic and iconic animals to have ever walked on our planet. While they are now extinct, they ...

A newly described dinosaur that appears to have persisted beyond a catastrophic die-off is forcing scientists to rethink how mass extinctions actually play out on the ground. Instead of a clean break ...

The oldest grape fossil uncovered by scientists in a new study reveals how the extinction of dinosaurs paved the way for the spread of the fruit and its related species across the globe. The research, ...

So in one way, dinosaurs never went extinct; they just turned into birds. However, in the stricter sense of the word, dinosaurs had a whole combination of anatomical and behavioral characteristics ...

A groundbreaking study has revealed that dinosaurs in New Mexico were thriving right up until the asteroid impact that led to their extinction. This challenges previous theories suggesting a gradual ...

The Cretaceous Era—roughly 145 to 66 million years ago—was the last hurrah of the dinosaurs. A massive asteroid impact brought them to a violent end, but there’s more to the story. The Cretaceous ...

A lightning strike was an extinction-level event for a massive animatronic dinosaur at an amusement park. See what happened.

Who knows what life would have looked like on Earth if an extinction-level event hadn't killed all of the dinosaurs? I highly doubt the dinosaurs would have let us evolve and take over the planet 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 ...