Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - For awhile now the general consensus has been that an asteroid striking Earth is what killed the dinosaurs, and while that's still technically true, a new study is giving us a ...

The extinction of dinosaurs reshaped rivers, forests, and landscapes—changes still recorded in the rock layers across North ...

66 million years ago, dinosaurs were the dominant species on Earth. However, an asteroid the size of Mt. Everest struck the planet at 100,000 kilometers per hour at the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

Changes in rock formations from before and after the mass extinction event 66 million years ago may reflect how dinosaurs acted as ecosystem engineers, shaping vegetation and even the meandering of ri ...

The reptiles had such an "immense" impact on the planet that their sudden exit led to wide-scale changes. The post How extinction of dinosaurs reshaped earth’s entire landscape appeared first on ...

A new analysis of fossil faeces has revealed what the environmental conditions were like at the time dinosaurs started to take over the Earth. Researchers found undigested remains of food, plants and ...

In prehistoric North Africa, the carcharodontosaurus, a lizard-like carnivore with shark-like teeth more than six inches long, and the spinosaurus - at four metres, one of the biggest killers to walk ...