Advent calendars are one of the best traditions at Christmas, capturing all the anticipation and magic in the ritual.

The cloud of dust from the impact blotted out the sunlight, causing a dramatic die-off of plants and animals, including the dinosaurs (except for birds). But this destruction and decay appear to ...

It's well known that the reign of the dinosaurs came to an end when a giant asteroid smashed into Earth 66 million years ago. But a new study suggests that this huge asteroid wasn't alone.

The cataclysm not only wiped out almost all the dinosaurs, only leaving beaked birds behind, but also triggered extinctions and ecological collapses the world over. Survivors of the heat and fire ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West ...

"At the end of Cretaceous, dinosaurs did not do very well, but fungi experienced a heyday." Many of the fungi that proliferated during this period likely feasted on decaying leaf litter ...

Well, if you like the idea but don't want to build such a setup yourself, you can always just buy the stackable Brio Kitchen Box. Currently the subject of a Kickstarter campaign, the Brio is ...

Using seismic data, University of Maryland geologist Jingchuan Wang and colleagues have found ancient ocean slabs hiding deep in Earth's interior, which could be contributing to the spread, and they ...

Nowadays, dinosaurs are widely used as animated, fictional characters in books and movies! In reality, these reptiles appeared on Earth between 243 and 233.23 million years ago. After the ...

If dinosaurs died, how come there are birds? Caiden S., age 9, Wylie, Texas Everyone knows what a bird is – and pretty much everyone knows what a dinosaur is. But not everyone is aware that ...

After 72 million years underground, palaeontologists near Grande Prairie in Alberta, Canada, have unearthed a 600lb (272kg) skull of a Pachyrhinosaurus, a plant-eating dinosaur that roamed Alberta ...

It's a dinosaur that roamed Alberta's badlands more than 70 million years ago, sporting a big, bumpy, bony head the size of a baby elephant. On Wednesday, paleontologists near Grande Prairie ...