Dinosaurs finally met their end, but only partially. Many of their descendants—modern birds—are currently threatened by extinction, with hundreds of species at risk due to human activity. This article ...

For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive asteroid or powerful volcanic eruptions. But now, researchers from Dartmouth ...

Before their dramatic exit around 66 million years ago, the largest land creatures on Earth were the sauropods—enormous, long ...

The intense volcanic activity that occurred tens of millions of years ago in this location was thought to be a plausible cause of the dinosaur extinction event. This latest batch of data suggests ...

“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 ...

We will not “de-extinct” wooly mammoths anytime soon, and likely will never “de-extinct” dinosaurs, because their DNA is too degraded. The birth of these pups is new, as is the word de-extinction, the ...

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

They found that the proportion of land the four dinosaur groups likely occupied remained constant overall, suggesting their risk of extinction stayed low, but their likelihood of detection declined.

Dinosaurs finally met their end, but only partially. Many of their descendants—modern birds—are currently threatened by extinction, with hundreds of species at risk due to human activity.