A timeline-driven account based on rock-core drilling and global sediment layers: the initial fireball, tsunami and shock ...

Earth, triggering one of the most devastating mass extinctions in history. In a single moment, life on the planet changed ...

Having appetites that aren’t picky has allowed cockroaches to survive lean times since the Chicxulub extinction and other natural disasters.

Night lizards weren't the only animals to survive the K-Pg mass extinction event. We wouldn't be here today if some of the mammal family tree hadn't lived through the asteroid impact. Avian dinosaurs ...

The big sky country of the western North America is a world-renowned dinosaur playground. Household-name dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops, to the lesser known duck-billed Maiasaura ...

Imagine the sound of a dinosaur roaring... Super loud, right? Wrong... It turns out the giant prehistoric creatures almost certainly didn't roar. You might be surprised to hear that some scientists ...

Science has advanced not just through steady progress, but often through the perseverance of individuals whose ideas were ...

The presence of driftwood and lake sediments has long been known in Stanton's Cave in Marble Canyon of eastern Grand Canyon. The mouth of the cave is 150 feet above the river, so geologists wondered ...

Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying reptile, that reveal a time of transition when venerable lineages that were ...

Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.

The newly-found fossils are 209 million years old and include pterosaurs, primitive frogs and lizard-like reptiles ...