An 11-year-old girl from Chester has been cast in the lead role of a remake of the 1980s classic The Land Before Time. Summer-Joules will play the character Littlefoot in the reboot of Steven ...

Dinosaurs weren't in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago ... at four different times during the last 18 million years of the Cretaceous. They found that, during that ...

The findings offer new insights into how prehistoric mammals adapted to changing environments well before the asteroid impact reshaped life on Earth.

Recent research conducted by the University of Bristol hypothesizes that mammals started to adapt to a more ground-oriented lifestyle several million years before the 66 million-year-old Chixculub ...

To find answers, a team of researchers studied North America’s fossil record, focusing on the 18 million years before ... year time period in question, the proportion of land the four dinosaur ...

8, 2025 — The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil record from that time rather than ...

In 2012, Blair McPhee, a graduate student and paleontologist, stumbled upon a set of dinosaur bones in South Africa. What he didn’t realize at the time was that these fossils belonged to a species ...

The model suggested that, during the 18 million-year time period in question, the proportion of land ... dinosaurs and thus understand their diversity patterns in that window of time just before ...

When calculating how much land is currently ... geology and geography at the time — their calculations suggested that overall dinosaur numbers stayed stable before the asteroid impact.

Duonychus is one of the few species of theropod dinosaur that evolved two-fingered hands. The fossil was first spotted in the 1970s but only in recent times was it possible to extract and study it.

Little did they know the land they’d claimed was sitting ... between 66 million and 67.5 million years ago, the time just before dinosaurs went extinct. Stretching across the Dakotas and Montana ...