Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

Most dinosaurs suddenly went extinct about 66 million years ago after an asteroid struck Earth. You can see evidence of this impact at the Chicxulub crater on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico ...

A regurgitated clump of sea lily fragments from at least two different species of sea lilies that were eaten during the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago ... roamed the earth, has been ...

The Vikings have agreed to terms with CB Byron Murphy on a three-year, $66 million contract ... out since joining the Vikings two seasons ago. He followed up a three-interception campaign in ...

The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

A palaeontologist explains. Did all dinosaurs become extinct — killed when an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago? Or could a few of them, somehow, have survived that mass extinction ...

Supernovas are powerful explosions marking the death of massive stars. They spread elements like carbon, calcium, and iron ...

The explosion released elements heavier than iron—like gold and platinum—through a process known as rapid neutron capture ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...