What happened in the days, even hours, after an asteroid set off the fifth extinction? A New Jersey quarry, and site of a new museum founded by paleontologist Ken Lacovara, sheds light on the mystery.

It’s quite remarkable that a class of animals that turn up their toes at a bit of pollution could survive the asteroid strike ...

The American West is renowned for dinosaur discoveries. But what about the Grand Canyon? The park was once home to some weird ...

New study finds dinosaurs weren’t declining before asteroid impact; a biased fossil record misled decades of paleontology.

Not far from College Station, Texas, we saw an echo of the event that, 66 million years ago, radically changed life on Earth.

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

Tyrannosaurus rex evolved in North America, but its direct ancestor came from Asia, crossing a land bridge connecting the continents more than 70 million years ago, according to a new study.

An asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous Period ended the dinosaurs, but earlier smaller extinctions dramatically set the ...

Tyrannosaurus rex evolved in North America, but its direct ancestor came from Asia, crossing a land bridge connecting the ...

A paleontological dig site in St. George has been saved from development after the city agreed to relocate a planned electrical substation, allowing scientists to continue their work indefinitely.

Dinosaurs were probably not doomed for extinction and could exist today — if it weren’t for the giant asteroid - Researchers ...

Ancient volcanic winters, not just carbon dioxide warming, likely triggered the end-Triassic extinction when dinosaurs rose ...