“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 ...

Around 201 million years ago, at the dawn of the Jurassic Period, a different mass extinction allowed dinosaurs to become the “terrible lizards” we so adore. Of the five mass extinctions that ...

Published in the scientific journal PNAS this week, the research charts a two million ... when they were blasted into extinction. “Our results demonstrate low dinosaur biodiversity during ...