The end of the Cretaceous Period saw one of the most dramatic mass extinctions Earth has ever seen. Find out what brought about the end of the dinosaurs and many other animals too. The fossil record ...

paddlefish and sturgeon swam in a river that meandered through a flourishing landscape populated by mighty dinosaurs and small mammals at North Dakota’s southwestern corner. Death came from ...

The reasons for the emergence and spread of all these grape seeds seem to be tied to the loss of dinosaurs. They only show up in the fossil record after this extinction event. "We always think ...

And yet, it turns out that we may have the extinction of the dinosaurs to thank for sophisticates ... family spread in the ...

The Chicxulub impactor is widely thought to have changed all that, leading to the dinosaur’s eventual extinction (and the evolution of surviving dinosaurs into today’s birds). The asteroid ...

has a third theory: that the evolution of modern plants was the death of the dinosaurs. According to Dr. Schatz, the dinosaurs were sluggish beasts whose metabolism (vital chemical processes ...

With all of these pieces to the puzzle in hand, the question remains: What role did these phenomena play in the extinction of the dinosaurs? While the answer to this question remains a mystery ...

Did dinosaurs lose their dominance suddenly or gradually? Some scientists think the answer lies locked within the remnants of long-dormant volcanoes. Massive beds of ancient lava found around the ...