For decades, scientists have debated the true cause behind the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs, and in this video, we finally explore the REAL reason they went extinct. While the asteroid impact ...

Before their dramatic exit around 66 million years ago, the largest land creatures on Earth were the sauropods—enormous, long ...

Now, new research suggests the proliferation of these sweet, juicy orbs may be linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs. After an asteroid struck Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs some 66 million ...

Nearly 66 million years ago, a large asteroid hit Earth and contributed to the global extinction of dinosaurs, allowing the rise of mammals and leaving birds as their only living descendants.

Researchers on Monday announced that the "grandmother" grape of all grapes originated in what is now Latin America − and as a result of the dinosaurs' extinction about 66 million years ago.

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 ...

Abundant fossil bones, teeth, trackways, and other hard evidence have revealed that Earth was the domain of the dinosaurs for ... to conclude that the mass extinction was caused by an ...

Dinosaurs were not the only victims of the extinction. More than 60 percent of species perished globally. In the oceans, entire genera of invertebrates died out. On land, gymnosperms and angiosperms, ...

While volcanism caused a temporary cold period, the effects had already worn off thousands of years before the meteorite, the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event, impacted. Massive ...

The research supported the theory that the extinction of dinosaurs set off events that led to widespread growth of fruit. A butterfly beating its wings can alter the trajectory of the universe ...

Here's what to know about why the findings are important, as well as the drawn-out debate over exactly what caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs tens of millions of years ago. Exactly what ...