A new study by researchers from the University of Bath (UK) and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) shows that flowering plants escaped relatively unscathed from the mass extinction that ...

Dinosaurs became extinct after a large asteroid slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula. Scientists looking for evidence of the asteroid saw that the rocks overlying the fallout debris were starkly ...

Gilmer, 59, started off by explaining the theory that dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years before humans existed. “Many pieces of evidence show that dinosaurs lived with humans. It’s mind ...

A massive, extinct reptile that once snacked on dinosaurs had a broad snout like an alligator’s, but it owed its success to a trait that modern alligators lack: tolerance for salt water. Deinosuchus ...