Fossils reveal dinosaurs were flourishing in diverse ecosystems right up until the asteroid impact ended their reign.

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 ...

The end of the dinosaurs was not just a spectacular finish, it was a brutal reset of life on Earth. In the geological instant ...

There might still be dinosaurs living on Earth today — if not for the giant asteroid. It’s a long-debated issue, but now researchers say the idea Dinosaurs were in decline before the Chicxulub ...

The impact dinosaurs had on Earth was so big that their extinction seems to have caused dramatic and wide-ranging changes to ...

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 150 million years. Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans and their earliest ancestors have been on the planet, it wouldn’t be ...

The researchers began to suspect changes in geology was somehow related to the mass extinction of dinosaurs - called the Cretaceous-Paleogene, or K-Pg, mass extinction. They started to examine what ...

After years of detective work, University geosciences professor Gerta Keller and her colleagues have found that an intensive period of volcanic eruptions and a series of asteroid impacts likely ended ...

A site in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico is providing a rare glimpse into the last days of the dinosaurs.Rocks and fossils at the Naashoibito Member site show an ecosystem that was ...

Today is the last day to ride DINOSAUR at Disney's Animal Kingdom. The attraction opened on April 22, 1998, as Countdown to Extinction - one of the original attractions when Animal Kingdom first ...