Late Cretaceous dinosaurs may have cut back vegetation, creating large floodplains. When the asteroid hit, those floodplains ...

Beneath what is now a Lowe’s parking lot just off Route 55 in Mantua Township, New Jersey, lies a remarkable fossil site, soon to be the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum. The site sits atop a layer of ...

Until recently, I assumed that the term “extinction burst” referred to the impact of the comet, asteroid or other ...

Behind a Lowe’s in New Jersey, scientists uncovered 100,000+ fossils at Edelman Fossil Park—including a mosasaur, a giant ...

By Brenden BobbyReader Columnist I am a ’90s dinosaur kid. That means for a third of my life, one thing in the world really ...

A fossil from the blustery plains of Patagonia is revising your book on one of the most elusive bands of hunting dinosaurs.

Anyone who's seen Armageddon is familiar with the concept of using a nuclear weapon on an asteroid that has the potential to trigger a catastrophic event.

In a fossil bed dating back 68 million years, scientists discovered the remains of a new species of megaraptor — a lithe, ...

A croc bone locked between the 70-million-year-old predator’s jaws gives scientists a rare look into its life and possibly ...

Scientists have finally solved a decades-long mystery about a strange crater deep under the North Sea. The Silverpit Crater, first discovered in 2002, has now been confirmed as the result of a massive ...

A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved. New ...