When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. At the age of 7, Kenneth Lacovara pored through a box full of rocks and fossils at a Boy Scout ...

Welcome to the SciFri Book Club about The Last Days of the Dinosaurs. There’s lots of ways to participate: Read the book, listen to our interview with the author, join our online community space, or ...

Some 66 million years ago, give or take several millennia, a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid slammed into our planet. The impact blasted out an enormous crater and heaved large amounts of material into the ...

From National Geographic to Jurassic Park, the modern appetite for dinosaurs is insatiable. Our fascination with the monstrous creatures that roamed the planet comes from the very simple fact that no ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. These wild details and more are packed into the new book "The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A ...

What color were the dinosaurs? Watching the Jurassic Park movies, the answer seems clear: gray, brown or, at best, dull green. in a new book, British paleontologist David Hone dryly asks: "Has there ...

For generations raised on dinosaur toys, “Jurassic Park” films and characters like Barney, it's hard to imagine a world where dinos and their fossils didn't exist — or, more accurately, weren't ...

Paleontologist Steve Brusatte loves Jurassic Park. Without it, he jokes, he wouldn’t even have a job. So he’s not going to criticize all the inaccuracies in the Hollywood franchise. But he’s also ...