In the icy wilderness of Antarctica, where glaciers now dominate the landscape, scientists have unearthed a fossil that ...

Researchers predict that a collision with the asteroid Bennu would plunge Earth into a year's long 'impact winter'.

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

There was a lot of luck as to which Cretaceous creatures made it through, but some features were definitely an advantage.

How exactly these extinct creatures had sex has proved something of a mystery - but now an expert sheds light on this most prehistoric of intercourse.

It extended before and beyond the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary, a transition between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods, marked by the mass extinction that wiped out more than 70% of all ...

Before there were birds pterosaurs ruled the skies, soaring above the dinosaurs below. But only recently has the secret of their flight been revealed.

Seventy-five percent of life on Earth was obliterated after the asteroid impact at Chicxulub, which took place 66 million years ago. Until now, scientists have proposed various theories about the ...

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs ... measurements of sulfur within the related Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary layer, the international team ...

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