While the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago is well-known, it was not the only mass extinction in Earth’s history. Scientists have identified at least five major ...

Dinosaur extinction theories suggest populations were dwindling when an asteroid wiped them out. New research is challenging this idea.

In a major discovery, scientists have found fossilized remains that offer an incredible glimpse into the moments after the ...

Researchers emphasize that plant habitats played a far more decisive role than the presence of dinosaurs. This work sheds light on a gradual adaptation, independent of the later catastrophe. It ...

and the risk of extinction stayed low. One of the factors that could have clouded the true diversity patterns of dinosaurs was the lack of rock exposed at the Earth’s surface during that window ...

Soon after the dinosaurs were discovered, scientists began piecing together their ... Middle to Late Triassic Period about 230 to 240 million years ago. At this time, the landmass on Earth was one ...

But wait, is not the cause of dinosaur-extinction attributed to a massive asteroid hitting the Earth? Well it turns out that the idea would not become viable till 1980, which was 40 years after the ...

Credit: SciTechDaily.com Dinosaurs may not have been declining before the asteroid impact after all – new research shows that ... Alessandro Chiarenza (UCL Earth Sciences), who has previously ...

and started the evolutionary process that led to life on Earth as we know it today. The truth is that some dinosaurs may have already become extinct during the ongoing extinction processes earlier ...

It was a time of significant changes for life on Earth, including the extinction ... and insects and trying to keep out of the dinosaur’s way! Extinction has happened ever since life began.