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 ...

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 ...

For decades, dinosaurs were thought to be permanently lost to time, but new genetic experiments suggest that assumption may ...

Dinosaurs were a different branch of archosaurs that later evolved into birds. The specific ancestors of dinosaurs were small, fast, upright-walking reptiles called dinosauromorphs. These creatures ...

A When it comes to dinosaur extinction, the working idea is what’s called the bolide impact. This is the hypothesis that a meteorite came to the surface of the Earth, hit the Earth and led to the ...

There's more that we don't know about dinosaurs than things that we do, but we're still discovering new things about how they ...

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 ...

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 ...