Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

A fossil of the world's oldest tadpole, which coexisted with dinosaurs in the Middle Jurassic about 165 million years ago, is pictured next to a 3D-printed representation of the tadpole and of a ...

This rapid cooling was driven by intense eruptions, evidenced by magnetic data from lava deposits. Following this mass extinction, dinosaurs emerged as the planet’s dominant species. Credit: ...

A paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London chronicles the age of the famous and fascinating massive reptiles Allosaurus Riley Black Science Correspondent Dinosaurs thrived on our ...

It marked the end of the Triassic period and the beginning of the Jurassic, the period when dinosaurs arose to take the place of Triassic creatures and dominate the planet. The exact mechanisms of ...

The S2 meteorite — about 200 times larger than the Chicxulub asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs — stirred the proverbial pot, triggering a tsunami that dispersed land debris into coastal regions. The ...

HONG KONG, Oct 25 (Reuters) - The first dinosaur fossils found in Hong Kong, likely from a large dinosaur, were put on display on Friday after they were found on a small, uninhabited outlying ...

An exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur tail was discovered offering exciting insights into what they really looked like. In 2016, a specimen dating back to over 99 millions years ago was uncovered ...

Dinosaur fossils have been discovered in Hong Kong for the first time, on a remote island in the financial center’s countryside. The fossils were found on Port Island, an uninhabitable expanse ...

There is probably no better example of the destructive power of space rocks upon our planet than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs along with three-quarters of Earth's plant and animal ...

When dinosaurs thundered across the land, a giant, cicada-like bug called Palaeontinidae flew in the sky and fed on tree sap. But something disturbed its peaceful existence — and triggered the ...