The impact dinosaurs had on Earth was so big that their extinction seems to have caused dramatic and wide-ranging changes to ...

Twelve non-dinosaur rulers show Earth’s old power: armored fish, giant insects, sky titans, sea kings, and saber teeth across ...

The Jurassic Period lasted from about 201.3 to 145 million years ago. Evolution moved incredibly fast then, as did the creatures it created. In popular culture, we tend to think of dinosaurs as slow, ...

What mechanisms allowed Earth to cool significantly after the age of the dinosaurs, transforming it from a tropical climate ...

Scientists have unearthed prehistoric insects preserved in amber in South America for the first time, offering an unprecedented glimpse into a pivotal era when flowering plants began to flourish ...

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 ...

A cluster of prehistoric dugout canoes resting beneath Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin, has been dated to as early as around 3000 BC, meaning at least one is older than Egypt’s Great Pyramid of ...

NEW YORK — If you've seen any of the "Ice Age" animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don't know the real ice age. It was an incredible time when the Earth was going through immense ...

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 ...