An asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous Period ended the dinosaurs, but earlier smaller extinctions dramatically set the ...

For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive ...

New study finds dinosaurs weren’t declining before asteroid impact; a biased fossil record misled decades of paleontology.

This article explores the major extinction events that influenced dinosaur survival and their eventual extinction, breaking ...

Researcher Professor Andrew Pask has explained exactly how scientists are planning to revive the extinct Tasmanian tiger ...

In a new effort to save critically endangered plant life, conservationists diffused the first set of bred “dinosaur trees” ...

Now, new research published Tuesday (April 8) in the journal Current Biology suggests that the apparent rarity of dinosaurs ...

“Dinosaurs were probably not inevitably doomed to extinction at the end of the Mesozoic. If it weren’t for that asteroid, they might still share this planet with mammals, lizards, and their ...

Ancient volcanic winters, not just carbon dioxide warming, likely triggered the end-Triassic extinction when dinosaurs rose ...

The ancestors of today’s crocodylians survived two mass extinction events. A new study has revealed a key factor behind their ...

Prime Minister’s Questions began in the context of looming nuclear-level annihilation for two once-great powers – the legacy ...

Dinosaurs finally met their end, but only partially. Many of their descendants—modern birds—are currently threatened by extinction, with hundreds of species at risk due to human activity.