What starts with the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs quickly becomes a journey through the entire rise of modern life on ...

This video explores how geography, climate, and continental drift shaped the evolution of dinosaurs during the Mesozoic Era.

An assembly framework and video to learn about about dinosaurs, paleontology, and the ancient natural history of Earth.

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

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An artist's imagining of a saprotrophic fungus. (Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) In the wake of the ...

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 ...

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A hidden Illinois museum packs dinosaur drama, live reptiles, Ice Age giants, and fossil-filled surprises into one unforgettable visit.

A new study documents that the robustness of skulls in carnivorous dinosaurs began to evolve first, a direct response to the increasing size of the plant-eating dinosaurs they hunted, shortly after di ...

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