Still, the mystery of why the geology of landscapes should have changed so much before and after dinosaurs' extinction remained. But then Dr. Weaver encountered a series of talks about how present-day ...

Learn how a unique combination of anatomical traits and CT-scan data led researchers to classify Chromeornis as a new dinosaur species — and reconstruct the behavior behind its unusual death.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossils paleontologists initially thought belonged to a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex actually belong to a new species of dinosaur ...

Named for its razor-like teeth, Novaculadon mirabilis came from a rodent-like order that outlived the dinosaur extinction before vanishing about 30 million years ago. By Sara Novak Around 145 million ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — The extinction of the dinosaurs may be ancient history, but that history continues to be rewritten, thanks in part to a professor at New Mexico State University. As Chad Brummett ...

Sixty-six million years ago, the age of the dinosaurs came to an abrupt end, but scientists are still piecing together exactly what happened. For decades, the leading theory has been that a massive ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

Credit: Wikimedia Commons These ancient arthropods were thriving hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs, and they kept their design through every mass extinction that followed. A hard shell, a ...

You might not think a paleontologist looking for 66-million-year-old fossils would need to ask a rancher about his great-grandmother's job in the Wyoming badlands. But that's what Paul Sereno, a ...

While dino bones from the Late Triassic Period are few and far between, the other clues they left behind can reveal how this epic saga played out to those with the stomach to decipher them. Eons is ...

Fossils paleontologists initially thought belonged to a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex actually belong to a new species of dinosaur that belongs to a distinct genus altogether. The 67 million-year-old ...