Sixty-six million years ago all the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. We know this because of the abrupt end to the fossil record for these creatures—one geological moment they were there, the next ...

At the start of the 1980s, the question of what forced dinosaurs and huge numbers of other creatures to become extinct 65 million years ago was still a mystery. By the decade’s end, that mystery was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. The trailer also features some geological oddities. Supposedly a ...

Feb. 25 (UPI) --Roughly 66 million years ago, an asteroid or comet crashed down to the Earth's surface in what is now Chicxulub, Mexico, pushing dust and vapor into the atmosphere. Around the same ...

Think back to any dinosaur illustration you saw as a kid. The background was almost certainly one of two things: an asteroid streaking across the sky or a volcano blowing its top. (If the illustrator ...

Widespread volcanic eruptions around 202 million years ago had a profound effect on Earth’s climate, triggering a mass extinction event that killed off three-fourths of the planet’s species, including ...

The University of Colorado Boulder has acquired a rare Wollemi pine tree, a tree species that lived alongside dinosaurs and was thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in Australia in 1994. CU ...

Ask someone how the dinosaurs died, and chances are they will tell you about an apocalyptically bad day 66 million years ago, when a huge asteroid slammed into Earth and triggered a nuclear winter.

DICKINSON — Badlands Dinosaur Museum's Denver Fowler, Ph.D., and Dickinson State University's Elizabeth Freedman Fowler, Ph.D., recently completed research that describes two new transitional species ...