More than a century of fossils pulled from the ground told a straightforward story: dinosaurs thrived, then declined, then ...

To understand better what was going on at the time of the dinosaurs’ demise, Dean and his colleagues turned to a statistical approach called occupancy modeling to estimate the probability of a ...

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

What happened in the days, even hours, after an asteroid set off the fifth extinction? A New Jersey quarry, and site of a new museum founded by paleontologist Ken Lacovara, sheds light on the mystery.

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -After the demise of the dinosaurs following an asteroid strike 66 million years ago, mammals became ...

we had to pivot,” Mulaney told his in-studio audience in a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Monday death of Pope Francis. The subject Mulaney settled on instead? Dinosaurs. According to the ...

For decades, paleontologists believed dinosaurs got their start in the southern half of the supercontinent Pangaea—Gondwana—then took millions of years to reach the north, known as Laurasia.

A businessman has been left devastated after two animatronic dinosaurs were stolen from outside a hotel. Heartbroken Tom Pruen, 41, has said the pain is 'like I've lost my children' after the two ...

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 ...