Oct. 30 (UPI) --A new study suggests that a prolonged dust cloud may have played a larger role than previously thought in the extinction of dinosaurs approximately 66 million years ago. A study ...

So, the truth is, the dinosaurs didn’t really go extinct. At least not all of them. One little group of dinos, the ones who were capable of surviving through the hard times, made it through. And ...

An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric creatures’ extinction wasn’t inevitable.

The mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period is perhaps the most famous in history. Over 66 million years ago, a 15-kilometer-wide asteroid struck what is now Mexico and changed life on ...

The new data The researchers analyzed 1,600 dinosaur fossils from 247 species. They studied the diversity and extinction rates for six dinosaur families. “We looked at the six most abundant ...

Scientists have concluded that the impact that created this crater occurred 65 million years ago. The date corresponds perfectly to the date of the dinosaur extinction. Rare Metal ...

Scientists have discovered levels of iridium 30 times greater than average in the Cretaceous/Tertiary (KT) boundary, the layer of sedimentary rock laid down at the time of the dinosaur extinction.