The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

A discovery about the dark fur of early mammals confirms long-held theories about their evolutionary and ecological behavior.

Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be written in the stars.

The early mammals that lived alongside the dinosaurs upwards of 150 million years ago (mya) were likely covered in dark and dusky greyish-brown fur, according to a quantitative reconstruction of ...

The early mammals that lived alongside the dinosaurs upwards of 150 million years ago (mya) were likely covered in dark and dusky greyish-brown fur ...

Dreadnoughtus was around a few million years before the mass extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs. Its temporal range is known as the Late Cretaceous, with an estimated time frame of around ...

Yet, they believe that Plesiosaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period due to the same event that killed off the dinosaurs. The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event occurred when a large ...