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Some 66 million years ago, on the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico, a 12 kilometer-wide (7.5 mile-wide) asteroid crashes to Earth. The impact causes an explosion whose magnitude is hard to...

The unusual 66-million-year-old mammal called Adalatherium «bends and even breaks a lot of rules,» researchers say. Scientists say they’re baffled by the strange appearance of a 66-million-year-old opossum-sized mammal dubbed...

Tyrannosaur embryo fossil fragments are helping scientists peek into the dinosaurs’ early days. Tyrannosaur dinosaurs roamed Earth long before baby photos were a thing, so all we have is the...

The duck-billed dinosaur Parasaurolophus is best known for the tube that grows out of its head, and the well-preserved skull offers more clues about the crest’s evolution. A spectacularly preserved...

It sounds like the ultimate science fiction storyline: What if the dinosaurs weren’t wiped out by an asteroid impact 65 million years ago? Perhaps they’d still be alive today, in...

It’s been about 66 million years or so since dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Most of us learned most of what we think we know about the ferocious beasts from the...

Paleontology is a team sport,» observes Kyle Atkins-Weltman, a fossil preparator at the University of Kansas. For years now, the school’s paleo department has been prospecting the fossil-rich Hell Creek...

Here’s some information you might already know: Not very much can survive the impact of a 6-mile-wide (10-kilometer-wide) asteroid. Ask the dinosaurs. When that happens, the world catches on fire,...

If you were standing at the bottom of a sheer rock face looking at a crisscrossing array of dinosaur tracks high above your head, it might seem as though you...

Beginning in the 1960s, a rising number of scientists turned to the study of dinosaurs as a career-despite the low pay. Also, more museums and universities developed dinosaur research programs....