Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This specimen of the bird-like dinosaur Archaeopteryx exhibits what paleontologists call the dinosaur death pose or the ...

(via Be Smart) A giant asteroid impact ended the age of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. How did this mass extinction play out, moment by moment? In this video we meet a geologist who has explored ...

In the early Cretaceous, a palm-sized bird made a fatal mistake. Its fossil shows a tight mass of tiny stones jammed in its throat - a snapshot of a creature caught in its final moments. The cluster ...

However, University of Michigan paleontologist Dr. Luke Weaver has now shown that once dinosaurs died off, forests were allowed to flourish, which in turn had a significant impact on rivers. He says ...

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 ...