The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...

Small fossils show mammals moved to the ground before the dinosaurs vanished. New plants changed habitats, giving better food ...

A new museum at Rowan University in southern New Jersey—an area of considerable paleontological significance—offers a ...

Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...

D modeling reveals that as bird brains grew larger, it led to changes in jaw muscles and joint mechanics—enabling the development of a more flexible and efficient feeding system in modern birds.

Using 3D models of ancient skulls, Dinosaur Choir gets us closer than ever to understanding the noises that dinosaurs made.

Recent research suggests that feathers likely evolved from simpler structures known as proto-feathers, which emerged around 200 million years ago in certain dinosaurs ... not only enhancing our ...

While researchers knew the 1.5-meter-long (about 5-foot-long) slab was around 200 million years old and home to an abundance of visible dinosaur footprints, the significance of the fossil remained ...

Ever since Crichton’s 1990 Jurassic Park, and the Spielberg blockbuster adaptation that followed in 1993, every dinosaur lover in existence has dreamed of how they could build the park right.