When Catastrophe Strikes: The Chicxulub Impact The story begins with an asteroid more than 6 miles (over 10 kilometers) wide ...

Fossil evidence from the Denver Basin indicates a significant fungal bloom after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction.

We now have a clearer picture of what happened in the decades following the asteroid impact that led to the extinction of ...

Paleontologists are working carefully to unearth ancient dinosaur fossils in southeastern Utah, but they're already liking ...

A 150-million-year-old fossil discovered in China reveals a bizarre early bird with sharp teeth, a dinosaur-like claw, and a ...

a group of scientists has just made an important discovery without digging it up, instead searching through stored drawers ...

Origins of a towering fungus identified in China traces back about 65 million years ago right after the mass extinction that ...

Dinosaurs and crocodilians popped up around the same time roughly 245 million years ago, but only one group survived the asteroid impact 65 million years ago (avian dinosaurs, aside). But why?

Keeping to warm climates throughout their 250-million-year history may have helped crocodiles and their relatives survive the ...

Questions abound about dinosaurs’ brains, behaviour and lives. James Woodford finds some answers in Jean Le Loeuff's book ...

The "Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo (Museu de Zoologia da USP)" is a hidden treasure trove of academia and ...

Triceratops, and all other non-avian dinosaurs vanished. Only one branch of the dinosaur family tree survived—birds. But what ...