Fossil sites in Australia hold pollen and spores from the dinosaur age, when the island straddled the Antarctic Circle. Now, ...

An international study featuring scientists from Curtin University's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Space Science ...

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.

It’s quite remarkable that a class of animals that turn up their toes at a bit of pollution could survive the asteroid strike ...

The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in ...

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

Researchers believe that life on Earth will end when the atmosphere's oxygen levels decline, which say will happen in about a ...

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 ...

They’ve concluded that the Earth was built in the same way that you would build a big snowball to make a snowman. The mass that would become our home rolled through planetary debris – rocks floating ...

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 150 million years. Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans ...

The repeated evolution of huge birds is part of the dinosaurian legacy. Beaked birds were the only dinosaurs to have survived ...