Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

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

The findings offer a new insight into the extreme forces unleashed by the tsunami that followed the Chicxulub asteroid impact ...

Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...

S ixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the ...

The end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago, marked the dramatic extinction of the dinosaurs. Until now, our understanding of this mass extinction has been largely shaped by fossils ...

A team including UCL researchers has identified two new dinosaur species found in present-day Romania that lived shortly ...

The new Argentine dino might give us clues to what the world was like before the asteroid wiped out their kind.

The Carcharodontosaurus was another species of therapod that lived in the Cretaceous period. Overseas fossils have showed it could grow up to thirteen metres in length about the same size as a T-Rex.