"It was only after the extinction of the dinosaurs that grapes started taking over the world." Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The extinction of ...

Though dinosaur extinction probably took weeks or months, in just one day, 425 feet of material accumulated where the asteroid hit with the power of 10 billion atomic bombs. The blast ignited ...

The Mass Extinction That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs Almost 66 million years ago, an asteroid hit Earth – and changed our planet forever. From tsunamis to shockwaves, join us on a journey through ...

On one infamous day in the late Cretaceous period ... bang” of modern bird evolution only after the rest of the dinosaurs died. For years the debate was as contentious as asking whether ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

But then 66 million years ago, over a relatively short time, dinosaurs disappeared completely (except for birds). Many other animals also died out, including pterosaurs, large marine reptiles, and ...

I am not a paleontologist. However, I am a formally trained researcher, and an area of keen interest for me is biblical ...

How do scientists study the behavior of dinosaurs, who died 65 million years ago? After all, dinosaur fossils are rare enough as it is, and most are fragments and difficult to work with.

Paleontologists analyze concretions—hard orbs of minerals that can collect around material like bone—and discover fossils of mammals that lived on Earth just after an asteroid killed the ...