Fossils reveal dinosaurs were flourishing in diverse ecosystems right up until the asteroid impact ended their reign.

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Among today’s birds, the species most closely resembling their dinosaur ancestors are large, flightless ground-dwellers like ostriches, emus (pictured above), cassowaries, rheas, and kiwis. Some of ...

There might still be dinosaurs living on Earth today — if not for the giant asteroid. It’s a long-debated issue, but now researchers say the idea Dinosaurs were in decline before the Chicxulub ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression of the last dinosaurs from southern North America features a long-necked Alamosaurus. - Natalia Jagielska A ...

It had quite an impact — striking with the force of 10 million atomic bombs. Sixty-six million years ago, the asteroid that slammed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula caused a mass extinction ...

"Specifically, the impact of their extinction may not just be observable by the disappearance of their fossils in the rock record, but also by changes in the sediments themselves." Dr. Weaver says the ...

The evolution of life on planet Earth has occurred gradually over time, but it has not always been a peaceful process. Life has had to face cataclysmic environmental changes, and sometimes that ...

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 ...

A site in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico is providing a rare glimpse into the last days of the dinosaurs.Rocks and fossils at the Naashoibito Member site show an ecosystem that was ...