Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that dinosaur diversity was declining before the asteroid struck 66 million years ...

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 ...

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 ...

While volcanism caused a temporary cold period, the effects had already worn off thousands of years before the meteorite, the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event, impacted. Massive ...

The mass extinction that wiped out nearly all life on Earth just before the dinosaurs evolved may have been caused by a global temperature drop rather than a rapidly warming climate. The End Triassic ...

Who knows what life would have looked like on Earth if an extinction-level event hadn't killed all of the dinosaurs? I highly doubt the dinosaurs would have let us evolve and take over the planet the ...

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One of the most surprising effects of the cascade of changes was...fruit? One of the most surprising effects of the cascade of changes that played out in the wake of dinosaur extinction may have been ...