The Chicxulub crater, located off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, is one of the most significant geological ...

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Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

Each unit in the multi-lesson curriculum is packed with play-based learning moments that teach kids about paleontology, dinosaur diets, habitats, and even big-picture concepts like extinction and ...

2025 — More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has ... From Dinosaurs to Birds: The Origins of ...

Researchers analyzed fossils and DNA to get a big-picture view of sloth evolution and determine what drove their immense size ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

Paleontologists assumed just one dinosaur egg type lay buried in Utah's Cedar Mountain Formation. Then they hit the jackpot.

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May 27, 2025 — Researchers conducted a systematic review of 99 scientific publications that compared the flora or fauna of old-growth forests, managed forests and clearcut sites in boreal Europe ...

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