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There has been a lot of debate around what killed off the dinosaurs, but according to a study published in Science volcanic activity can be ruled out. The researchers say that an asteroid impact ...

Many giant animals roamed the Earth after non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Dmitry Bogdanov via Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 3.0 / Dmitry Bogdanov via Wikipedia under CC ...

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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 ...

66 million years ago, the last dinosaurs vanished from Earth. We’re still trying to understand why. New fossils of abelisaurs – distant relatives of the tyrannosaurs – from north Africa suggest that ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Do dinosaurs still exist in some parts of the ...

The sky burned with streaks of crimson red and dark orange. The dinosaurs looked up — just in time to see a burning, bright flash streak across the sky. Then the asteroid hit, wiping out ...

Rocks formed immediately before and after non-avian dinosaurs went extinct are strikingly different, and now, tens of millions of years later, scientists think they’ve identified the culprit—and it ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Alamosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs from ...

Being called a “bird brain” may be closer to a compliment than an insult. That’s because new research suggests that some birds evolved over time to have smaller bodies and maintain large brains.