Learn about a small rodent-like mammal whose descendants survived the extinction event that killed all non-avian dinosaurs.

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the ...

Nick Saban has often been called “the goat,” but researchers at the University of Alabama recently honored the legendary coach with a something a little more nautical in nature. A UA study of ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The asteroid that ...

Since it premiered on Netflix on Friday, March 6, The Dinosaurs — a new nature documentary miniseries that charts the history of the titular beasts from their debut in the Triassic period until their ...

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction event, marking the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods approximately 66 million years ago, stands as one of the most profound ...

WACO, Texas — A new study published on Thursday, co-authored by researchers from Baylor University, New Mexico State University, the Smithsonian Institution and several international collaborators, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A single asteroid descended without warning to end the reign of dinosaurs, at the peak of their size and strength. It's too ...