Sixty six million years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount Everest hurtled toward Earth, setting in motion an extinction event that would change life forever. The impact wiped out the largest and ...

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 ...

Rock layers deposited before and after the major dinosaur extinction event 65 million years ago are surprisingly different.

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

The arrow doesn't just go in one direction." Dinosaurs became extinct after a large asteroid slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula. Scientists looking for evidence of the asteroid saw that the rocks ...

What kid hasn’t dreamed of exploring the world when dinosaurs roamed the earth? Author and illustrator Rachel Ignotofsky put ...

Warning: Spoilers for Uncanny X-Men #14!The dinosaurs have finally been given a canonical reason for their extinction in the Marvel Universe. Dinosaurs have always been an important staple of Marvel ...

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 reptiles had such an "immense" impact on the planet that their sudden exit led to wide-scale changes in landscapes - including the shape of rivers, say American scientists. Geologists have long ...