Back when dinosaurs roamed the planet, Earth was hotter than it is today. Yet life not only existed but thrived. Meanwhile, ...

The Triassic–Jurassic transition represents one of Earth’s most profound episodes of biological upheaval, characterised by extensive volcanic activity, rapid climatic shifts and cascading ...

For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive asteroid or powerful volcanic eruptions. But now, researchers from Dartmouth ...

A site in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico is providing a rare glimpse into the last days of the dinosaurs.Rocks and fossils at the Naashoibito Member site show an ecosystem that was ...

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 ...

In a new effort to save critically endangered plant life, conservationists diffused the first set of bred “dinosaur trees" worldwide. Wollemi pines (Wollemia nobilis) shared the same Earth as the ...