Everyone knows what a bird is – and pretty much everyone knows what a dinosaur is. But not everyone is aware that birds evolved from dinosaurs approximately 160 million years ago. In fact, birds and ...

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 ...

A newly described dinosaur that appears to have persisted beyond a catastrophic die-off is forcing scientists to rethink how mass extinctions actually play out on the ground. Instead of a clean break ...

Only one specimen of Alcovasaurus has ever been found, named for the tiny Wyoming town of Alcova, where it was discovered ...

The Triassic-Jurassic Extinction Event: How Dinosaurs Took Over Roughly 201 million years ago, the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event wiped out about 76% of all marine and land species on Earth. This ...

One of the most surprising effects of the cascade of changes was...fruit? One of the most surprising effects of the cascade of changes that played out in the wake of dinosaur extinction may have been ...

Rocks formed immediately before and after non-avian dinosaurs went extinct are strikingly different, and now, tens of millions of years later, scientists think they’ve identified the culprit—and it ...

A parent, who is part of a group that believes dinosaurs are one big lie, is getting international attention after making an angry post on a parenting site. The writer starts the rant with, "I am ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study reveals dinosaurs in New Mexico were thriving just before the asteroid impact that ended their reign, overturning long ...

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 ...

Dinosaurs' extinction "re-engineered" Earth's surface, according to new research. The reptiles had such an "immense" impact on the planet that their sudden exit led to wide-scale changes in landscapes ...