But archaeopteryx went extinct and is not the ancestor of modern birds, just one of many feathered dinosaurs that resembled ...

Sixty-six million years ago, Earth’s balance shifted in a single strike. The asteroid impact set off firestorms, blocked out ...

The bones of a 160-million-year-old dinosaur are helping scientists solve one of evolution’s biggest mysteries: how birds ...

Step into “After the Age of Dinosaurs” at the Field Museum, and you’ll be transported back in time 66 million years, when an ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago ...

Mass extinction events often result in the majority of species on earth disappearing. Is the planet in the throes of another ...

An interdisciplinary team of specialists has revealed a large, hypercarnivorous crocodile that lived in southern Argentina ...

Scientists have discovered a remarkably well-preserved skeleton of a new 3.5-meter-long reptile with sharp, blade-like teeth ...

“Dinosaurs were probably not inevitably doomed to extinction at the end of the Mesozoic. If it weren’t for that asteroid, they might still share this planet with mammals, lizards, and their ...

Science Centre Singapore, Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum launch dinosaur, extinction exhibit Read more at straitstimes ...

Now, a fossil has uncovered a new, rodent-like species of these resilient mammals. The discovery came from a jawbone found last year by Benjamin Weston, at the time an undergraduate paleontology ...