Scientists now say that's almost precisely what happened to the dinosaurs, on a much bigger scale: the asteroid that hit ...

A vast, ancient slab of seafloor plunged beneath the Pacific Ocean and has hovered in Earth’s mantle for more than 120 ...

Scientists now say that's almost precisely what happened to the dinosaurs, on a much bigger scale: the asteroid that hit Chicxulub, Mexico, is still credited with killing the dinosaurs.

In western North America during the twilight of the dinosaur age, the unquestioned ruler was Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the ...

A fascinating new research has discovered the oldest known ancestor of the octopuses. A remarkable fossil has been found ...

Did you know that some creatures from the age of dinosaurs are still alive today? Yep, there are sea monsters and other prehistoric monsters swimming and crawling around our planet right now! Take the ...

A mysterious discovery reveals a story from the dinosaur age: evidence of an ancient seafloor that sunk deep into the Earth.

The end of non-avian dinosaur’s time on Earth is often depicted as one big, knockout blow delivered by the cataclysmic ...

Scientists have revealed images of a second massive asteroid impact called Nadir Crater buried 300 meters under the ocean ...

Thousands of years from now, archeologists will stumble across a burial site in Christchurch, Dorset, discover the fossilised ...

It includes profiles and illustrations of prehistoric mammals such as Livyatan melvillei, a large predatory whale from the Miocene epoch. After the extinction of dinosaurs came the age of mammals. A ...

Runners in colorful dinosaur costumes turned out for a race up a grassy ski slope in Katsuyama City, Fukui Prefecture, on ...