An illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula in what is modern-day Mexico. The asteroid responsible for our last mass extinction 66 million years ago — wiping out ...

Scientists studied thousands of dinosaur footprints in Bolivia and uncovered how these animals moved, ran, and interacted on ...

Palaeontologists are finding more dinosaur remains than ever before, and with new technology they can now peer inside these creatures' brains, understand their sensory anatomy and reconstruct whole ...

Mosasaurs are best known as fearsome marine reptiles that ruled the oceans at the end of the dinosaur era. But new research ...

Lumbering, long-necked dinosaurs frequented the same watering hole as their predators some 167 million years ago, a scientific study of dinosaur footprints found. The footprints at what is now the ...

Dinosaur footprints went from prehistory to current affairs when they were unearthed in a property owner’s backyard after recent floods in Travis County. But the discovery of dinosaur remains in Texas ...

Accidentally unearthed during a water diversion project, two dinosaur egg fossils and a small section of dinosaur rib bone ...

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