Sixty-six million years ago, a catastrophic asteroid impact wiped out 75% of Earth’s species, bringing an abrupt end to the reign of the nonavian dinosaurs. The 9-mile-wide (15 km) space rock struck ...

When I think about dinosaurs, I usually picture the big ones. I think of triceratops with its pointy horns or apatosaurus with its long, long neck. I asked my friend John Blong if those dinos ever ...

What if the Chicxulub asteroid, the very object that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, were to hit Earth today?

A microbiologist named João Pedro de Magalhães has proposed the idea that the reign of dinosaurs forced mammals to speed up their reproductive cycle, eliminating key longevity genes. de Magalhães ...

Whether human or reptile, in the skull of most terrestrial vertebrates there is a gaping hole in the temple; in the case of most reptiles, there are two. Scientists have been looking for explanations ...

Dinosaurs, Turtles, and Humans Hossam Badrawi , Wednesday 24 Dec 2025 The earliest known ancestors of turtles appeared about 220–240 million years ago (in the late Triassic period), roughly the same ...

(CNN) — Prehistoric humans in Brazil carved drawings in the rock next to dinosaur footprints, suggesting that they may have found them meaningful or interesting, a new study has found. The rock ...

At first glance, dinosaur fossils and modern cancer research may seem worlds apart. But a new study suggests that soft tissue preserved for millions of years inside ancient bones could offer valuable ...

At an archaeological site in Barnham, Suffolk, researchers uncovered remarkable evidence of the earliest known human-made ...

Right now, I’m wearing a bright purple sweatshirt. It has a brontosaurus on it. Yes, I put this on with glee this morning, and yes, I wore it to work. I’ve been smiling all day. And all I want to talk ...

Prehistoric humans in Brazil carved drawings in the rock next to dinosaur footprints, suggesting that they may have found them meaningful or interesting, a new study has found. The rock carvings, ...