The asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs erased nearly all traces of itself. It struck Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula 66 ...

Researchers just uncovered more about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago - Findings really ...

(via Be Smart) A giant asteroid impact ended the age of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. How did this mass extinction play out, moment by moment? In this video we meet a geologist who has explored ...

More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of ...

In biology and paleontology (the study of extinct organisms) there are a few ways to estimate the age of an animal's skeleton. One is the extent of fusion of sutures in the skeleton—how much the ...

The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been the octopus. New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once ...

Crocodile bones shed light on growth dynamics. Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan In biology and palaeontology (the study of extinct organisms) there are a few ways to estimate the age of an animal’s skeleton.