The phrase "as dead as the dinosaurs" is an unfortunate one. Not only are the dinosaurs alive and well (they're known as "birds" these days), but it also implies the famed dinosaur giants from the ...

When the big asteroid hit Mexico 66 million years ago, it set off wildfires, tsunamis and massive clouds of dust that darkened the skies, killed much of Earth’s plant life and triggered a chain of ...

Jurassic Park captured our imagination, but the reality is far from fiction. This video explains why science makes bringing ...

The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs didn’t keep life down for long. New research shows that microscopic plankton ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — The extinction of the dinosaurs may be ancient history, but that history continues to be rewritten, thanks in part to a professor at New Mexico State University. As Chad Brummett ...

In biology and paleontology (the study of extinct organisms) there are a few ways to estimate the age of an animal's skeleton ...

Dinosaurs and other extinct saurians : a historical perspective : introduction / Richard T.J. Moody ... [et al.] -- The roles played by museums, collections and collectors in the early history of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossils paleontologists initially thought belonged to a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex actually belong to a new species of dinosaur ...

It won't be a massive asteroid that dooms these Seattle dinosaurs. The sky won’t darken into a lethal haze of vaporized rock and soot. But the Pacific Science Center’s animatronic dinosaurs are going ...