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

Multiple sirens have been heard in and around Kansas City Tuesday warning of tornadoes, with one already confirmed on the ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...

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

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 ...

Then swings in global climate—a dramatic period of cooling followed by a long period of warming—ushered in the extinction of some 75 percent of all species, including the non-avian dinosaurs.

As a result, by 100 million years ago, the forests of Victoria included an open conifer-dominated forest canopy. The ...

But there are beauties, animals, and ecosystems that humans have never seen. Some of them are older than the Dinosaurs, and survived the biggest mass extinction Earth has ever been through. Humans ...

They went extinct at the same time as the dinosaurs during the mass extinction event. Cynodonts were not quite mammals, but their closer relatives. These small, furry creatures lived in the shadow ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Like the bones of a Mesozoic behemoth, the BBC’s landmark natural history series, Walking with Dinosaurs ...