Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 150 million years. Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How different would our world be if dinosaurs were alive today? The answer is: very. Prehistoric in the present? We all love ...

Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that dinosaur diversity was declining before the asteroid struck 66 million years ...

Who would have thought that something as widely consumed today as the grape has its prehistoric roots in the time of the dinosaurs? In a groundbreaking discovery published in the journal Nature Plants ...

Surely a contender for the most bizarre-looking dinosaur of them all is Yi. This small (in size and name) dinosaur from the ...

So in one way, dinosaurs never went extinct; they just turned into birds. However, in the stricter sense of the word, dinosaurs had a whole combination of anatomical and behavioral characteristics ...