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 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 ...

So in one way, dinosaurs never went extinct; they just turned into birds. However, in the stricter sense of the word, dinosaurs had a whole combination of anatomical and behavioral characteristics ...

Dinosaur skeletons often dominate museum halls, from the towering Tyrannosaurus rex known as Sue in Chicago to Sophie the ...

Crocodiles made it through the extinction by being energy misers that could wait out long food shortages in rivers and swamps. When ecosystems collapsed, low metabolism, an aquatic lifestyle, and a ...

We’ve long heard that a meteorite likely wiped out the dinosaurs, but an international study is shedding light on how climate change may have played into the extinction of the dinos. A study recently ...