Scientists are narrowing down the type of space rock that caused the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period, and ...

This program examines a new proposed scenario for the extinction of the dinosaurs. The event is open to all ages, with a capacity of 170 including two wheelchair spaces.

For millions of years, through the Triassic and the Jurassic that followed, large dinosaurs kept such forests open and sunlit down to their trunks by feeding and trampling on plants. A sunny stand of ...

A fossilized piece of dinosaur poop could help answer an age-old question in paleontology: Why are birds the only dinosaurs that survived?

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for a very long time, with generations of them living and dying over the course of millennia. When they finally went extinct (likely) due to the meteor strike, they took many ...

An extremely well preserved fossil feather could reveal why some birds survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid, and others did not.

Just a few hundred thousand years after an asteroid wiped out most dinosaurs, large alligators were thriving in North America ...