Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that dinosaur diversity was declining before the asteroid struck 66 million years ...

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The Cretaceous Era—roughly 145 to 66 million years ago—was the last hurrah of the dinosaurs. A massive asteroid impact brought them to a violent end, but there’s more to the story. The Cretaceous ...

An assembly framework and video to learn about about dinosaurs, paleontology, and the ancient natural history of Earth.

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden ...

Dinosaurs’ extinction “re-engineered” Earth’s surface, according to new research. The reptiles had such an “immense” impact on the planet that their sudden exit led to wide scale changes in landscapes ...

This is an artistic reconstruction of what Colorado would have looked like 67 million years ago. The latest issue of the University of Wyoming’s only peer-reviewed scientific journal, Rocky Mountain ...

A thin clay layer in Italy, discovered by a scientist and his geologist son, revealed an unusual iridium spike. This rare ...

A badly mangled dinosaur skull, once forgotten in a drawer, turned out to be a rare and important discovery. Reconstructed by a Virginia Tech student, it revealed a new species of early carnivorous ...

Massive volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the dinosaurs. This phase of active volcanism took place in a period just before ...