What killed the dinosaurs? It's a question scientists are still trying to answer, and the case isn't going to be closed anytime soon. But a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National ...

Massive volcanic eruptions did not cause the extinction of dinosaurs, according to a new study. Volcanoes on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the ...

The discovery of what could be the youngest fossil of a dinosaur to date--from a period notorious for being free of their remains--has reignited a clash among paleontologists about what caused the ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Dinosaur fossils found in Patagonia provide the first evidence that long-necked, whip-tailed diplodocid sauropods survived well beyond the Jurassic period, when they were ...

After years of detective work, University geosciences professor Gerta Keller and her colleagues have found that an intensive period of volcanic eruptions and a series of asteroid impacts likely ended ...

In the spirit of “everything is connected,” a new study found that the extinction of the dinosaurs paved the way for the ...

Sixty-six million years ago, an almost nine-mile-wide meteor crashed into Earth and triggered a mass extinction of dinosaurs. But what if that’s not the whole story? A series of enormous volcanic ...

Why did the dinosaurs die? Sure, you could go with careful, rational reasons, or you can go for the totally insane theories! Or, maybe they were all eaten by the ever-adorable Edison Quillsworth ...

Did the extinction of dinosaurs play a part in the creation of wine? While it may sound far-fetched, according to an article in the prestigious, peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature Plants, there ...