We all know the story. Dinosaurs were roaming the earth, happy as could be, and then our planet met a big asteroid. Thus ...

A newly discovered prehistoric mammal may hold clues to how life survived the dinosaur-killing extinction. The tiny species, ...

Coincident with the rise of the dinosaurs, a large landmass filled most of the Arctic circle, potentially contributing to ...

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 ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. But we mammals did survive. The characteristics we now equate with “mammalness” are ...

On the final day of the Cretaceous period, some 66 million years ago, Earth was teeming with a dazzling variety of dinosaurs.

Scientists have discovered a Jurassic tectonic plate boundary that could help to predict what the planet might look like ...

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 ...

Life on Earth, according to ‘The Dinosaurs,’ is a story of conquest. And that is a cultural story as much as a scientific one ...

Dinosaurs may have ruled the Earth, but did they roam on Mars? NASA’s Perseverance rover has spotted a rock so intriguing ...