paddlefish and sturgeon swam in a river that meandered through a flourishing landscape populated by mighty dinosaurs and small mammals at North Dakota’s southwestern corner. Death came from ...

In just a few years, according to this hypothesis, these frigid and sweltering climatic extremes caused the extinction of not just the dinosaurs, but of up to 70 percent of all plants and animals ...

Researchers say the fossil seeds help show how the grape family spread in the years following the death of the dinosaurs. One of the species represents the earliest known example of plants from ...

In a new study, scientists examined bromalites, including fossilized feces and vomit, to reveal prehistoric diets and ...

The reasons for the emergence and spread of all these grape seeds seem to be tied to the loss of dinosaurs. They only show up in the fossil record after this extinction event. "We always think ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West ...

An analysis of hundreds of bromalites – fossilised faeces and vomit – shows how changes in diet enabled dinosaurs to take ...

Paleontologists at the University of Uppsala in Sweden studied more than 500 pieces of fossilized dinosaur poop to find out ...

With all of these pieces to the puzzle in hand, the question remains: What role did these phenomena play in the extinction of the dinosaurs? While the answer to this question remains a mystery ...

For tens of millions of years, dinosaurs dominated the planet – by not being finicky eaters. A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature sheds some new light on how that came to be ...

Find out what brought about the end of the dinosaurs and many other animals too. The fossil record shows that for the first 175 million years of their existence, dinosaurs took on a huge variety of ...