The researchers began to suspect changes in geology was somehow related to the mass extinction of dinosaurs - called the Cretaceous-Paleogene, or K-Pg, mass extinction. They started to examine what ...

There might still be dinosaurs living on Earth today — if not for the giant asteroid. It’s a long-debated issue, but now researchers say the idea Dinosaurs were in decline before the Chicxulub ...

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 ...

Move over, TikTokers. It's time to shine a spotlight on some of the earliest influencers around: dinosaurs. When these ecosystem engineers were in... Love fruit? Thank dinosaur mass extinction Move ...

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 ...

When the big asteroid hit Mexico 66 million years ago, it set off wildfires, tsunamis and massive clouds of dust that darkened the skies, killed much of Earth’s plant life and triggered a chain of ...

Chris Doughty, an associate professor in NAU's informatics department, was writing a paper for a conference and had the idea to test a theory about sauropods, forests and fruit. Doughty created a ...

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 ...

Credit: pexels Fossil records show turtles not only survived the K–Pg extinction but actually expanded in diversity afterward. Their aquatic habits gave them shelter when land ecosystems collapsed, ...