Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season ...

The site has been discovered in the dinosaur-rich ‘badlands’ of the Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota ... day or even hours of the Cretaceous might seem impossible.” This is just the beginning of a ...

Buried deep at North Dakota's Tanis fossil site, these fossils are helping to reconstruct the final hours of life on Earth during that tragic day 65 million years ago. For the first time ...

Scientists are investigating a fossil site called Tanis in North Dakota that records the day 66 million years ago when an asteroid hit Earth. Among the discoveries is a beautifully preserved ...

The ensuing mass extinction erased about three-quarters of Earth’s species, including the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous ... at the fossil site called the Tanis deposit – and ...