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 ...

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 ...

Roughly 201 million years ago, the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event wiped out about 76% of all marine and land species on Earth. This cleared the stage for dinosaurs to take over for the next 135 ...

The asteroid that smacked into our planet about 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary may have been bad news for dinosaurs, but it was good news for fungi. According to new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have one of the best jobs in the world: I am a paleontologist who digs up dinosaur bones for a living. I am also the paleontology consultant for the Jurassic World film series, and I teach courses ...

Most living organisms inherit two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent, but plants frequently undergo whole-genome ...

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 ...

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 ...