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 ...

A small but fierce jawbone sits in Argentina’s natural science museum in Buenos Aires. Six inches long and studded with backward-curving fangs that would have hooked into flesh to rip it open, the ...

A new “Jurassic Park” movie is coming out next year, the latest installment of the blockbuster series all about the dangerous hubris in trying to bring dinosaurs back from extinction. Paleogeneticist ...

The extinction of the dinosaurs marked a sudden ending, but what followed remains less clearly understood. Fossil evidence suggests a world shaped by instability, collapsed food chains, and long ...

A 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 ...

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 ...