The extinction of dinosaurs about 65 million years ago helped create an environment where fruits could thrive, leading to the evolution of primates, a new study has found. The new study, published in ...

For decades, many scientists believed dinosaurs were already dwindling in number and variety long before an asteroid strike sealed their fate 66 million years ago. A new dinosaur fossil at the Denver ...

To sort the earliest branches of the dinosaur family tree, paleontologists compare skeletons piece by piece. They build ...

For more than a century, paleontologists have treated dinosaurs and mammals as rival success stories that simply took turns ruling the planet. New work on how each group raised its young suggests the ...

Throughout the past 600 million years there have been five major mass extinction events that devastated life on Earth. While some of these events are very well studied, such as the killer asteroid ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — The extinction of the dinosaurs may be ancient history, but that history continues to be rewritten, thanks in part to a professor at New Mexico State University. As Chad Brummett ...

A new study strengthens the claim that an asteroid impact ended the reign of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The finding by an international team of 41 researchers is published today in the ...

NEW YORK (Mainichi) -- "Don't choose extinction. Save your species before it's too late." Ahead of the 26th U.N. Climate Change Conference known as COP26 beginning Oct. 31, the United Nations ...