About 66 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth in a very different environment than we see today, with some creatures demonstrating indomitable power, while others thrived in different ways.

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

Flowering plants survived Earth’s worst disasters, including the asteroid strike that ended the dinosaurs, while many others ...

An assembly framework and video to learn about about dinosaurs, paleontology, and the ancient natural history of Earth.

Dinosaurs are estimated to have roamed Earth for over 165 million years, gradually evolving over time to survive in changing ...

What starts with the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs quickly becomes a journey through the entire rise of modern life on ...

New research suggests Earth’s climate can swing wildly on surprisingly short timescales — even during hot, ice-free ...

Long before humans walked the planet, Earth belonged to creatures that looked straight out of a sci-fi film. Giants resembling dinosaurs, but with absurdly long necks; giant fish that could even walk ...

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Rocks formed immediately before and after non-avian dinosaurs went extinct are strikingly different, and now, tens of millions of years later, scientists think they’ve identified the culprit—and it ...

Apple TV+ and BBC deliver a stunning David Attenborough-narrated docuseries, enabled by combining paleontology research with wildlife filmmaking and the latest digital techniques. By Carolyn Giardina ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. But we mammals did survive. The characteristics we now equate with “mammalness” are ...