Among today’s birds, the species most closely resembling their dinosaur ancestors are large, flightless ground-dwellers like ostriches, emus (pictured above), cassowaries, rheas, and kiwis. Some of ...

WACO, Texas — A new study published on Thursday, co-authored by researchers from Baylor University, New Mexico State University, the Smithsonian Institution and several international collaborators, ...

Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that dinosaur diversity was declining before the asteroid struck 66 million years ...

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 ...

For a long time, the prevailing theory was that dinosaurs were already in decline before the Chicxulub asteroid struck Earth approximately 66 million years ago, leading to the extinction of about 70% ...

The asteroid that smacked into our planet about 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary may have been bad news for dinosaurs, but it was good news for fungi. According to new ...

It had quite an impact — striking with the force of 10 million atomic bombs. Sixty-six million years ago, the asteroid that slammed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula caused a mass extinction ...

Rocks formed immediately before and after non-avian dinosaurs went extinct are strikingly different, and now, tens of millions of years later, scientists think they’ve identified the culprit—and it ...

Most living organisms inherit two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent, but plants frequently undergo whole-genome ...