Fossil evidence from the Denver Basin indicates a significant fungal bloom after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction.

66 million years ago, dinosaurs, the apex predators, roamed the Earth, dominating the land, sea, and sky. Scientists have known for decades that these magnificent creatures were wiped out after a ...

A team of international researchers has uncovered new evidence that the Chicxulub meteorite impact, long known for causing the extinction of the dinosaurs, also created an underground environment that ...

Though the asteroid impactor struck Earth and likely spelled the end of the Age of Dinosaurs about 66 million years ago, researchers are still uncovering more about it. Researchers from the University ...

New uranium-lead dating of zircons from Oklahoma’s buried Ames impact structure points to a Late Devonian age near 370 million years, roughly 100 million years younger than its traditional Ordovician ...

A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the predator Dinogorgon, whose skull is shown ...

In the Namib Desert, there is a plant that looks anything but ordinary.Its name is Welwitschia (Welwitschia mirabilis).It appears to have a short trunk on the ground from which many tattered, long ...

New simulations reveal the one option left when warning time runs out—and it’s nuclear.

If you’ve already heard that dinosaurs are extinct — and the betting is that you have — you’ve probably also heard the reason: an asteroid smashed into Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula some 65 million years ...