Did all dinosaurs become extinct, killed when an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago? Or could a few of them, somehow, have survived that mass extinction event – with their descendants living ...

A giant asteroid impact ended the age of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. How did this mass extinction play out, moment by ...

Everyone knows what a bird is – and pretty much everyone knows what a dinosaur is. But not everyone is aware that birds evolved from dinosaurs approximately 160 million years ago. In fact, birds and ...

When it comes to dinosaur extinction, the working idea is what’s called the bolide impact. This is the hypothesis that a meteorite came to the surface of the Earth, hit the Earth and led to the ...

When the big asteroid hit Mexico 66 million years ago, it set off wildfires, tsunamis and massive clouds of dust that darkened the skies, killed much of Earth’s plant life and triggered a chain of ...

In this Brooklyn Bird Watch, we’ll share some fascinating facts and theories about the life of birds millions of years ago, and stay tuned for follow-up pieces about the current realities of our ...

One of the most surprising effects of the cascade of changes was...fruit? One of the most surprising effects of the cascade of changes that played out in the wake of dinosaur extinction may have been ...

Did the extinction of dinosaurs play a part in the creation of wine? While it may sound far-fetched, according to an article in the prestigious, peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature Plants, there ...

When you picture a dinosaur, what does it look like? For Jingmai O'Connor, paleobiologist and associate curator of reptiles at the Field Museum of... Birds are dinosaurs. Here's how scientists know ...