The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the planet 66 million years ago and brought a calamitous end to the reign of dinosaurs. Though dinosaur ...

Palaeontology, as Jim points out, builds from the study of tiny details into a grand narrative of evolution. The thrill of this “discovery science”, as Steve calls it, is not knowing what you ...

Under that theory, a few ancient species survived the impact and gave rise to a “big bang” of modern bird evolution only after the rest of the dinosaurs died ... question is why these ...

A study of fossilized feces and vomit attempts to piece together why dinosaurs were so evolutionarily successful.

Some animals appeared to die in their sleep ... in this case, dinosaurs, stomping around overheard. That later theory would also help explain why the well-preserved fossils from the Yixian ...