Fact: About 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, 75 percent of plant and animal species went extinct, including the dinosaurs (except those that evolved into birds). Fact: About ...

Chinese pits filled with an astounding array of small dinosaur fossils may have been created by a 20-ton behemoth wandering a volcanic landscape, a new study suggests.

Around 120 to 130 million years ago, northeast China was home to a lush landscape filled with temperate forests, lakes, and diverse wildlife. Today, this ancient ecosystem, preserved in the Yixian ...

Did Volcanoes, Not an Asteroid, Wipe Out the ... the prevailing theory behind the mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs has pointed to a catastrophic asteroid impact near today’s ...

At the other end of the size spectrum are 5 and ½-inch tracks made by feet with three toes, suggesting that bipedal meat-eating dinosaurs such as Coelophysis walked through this volatile landscape.

Ancient volcanic activity was so intense it could have caused the climate changes believed to be responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs, a French researcher says in a new study.

Subsurface explorers have uncovered a previously undescribed 'Jurassic World' of around 100 ancient volcanoes buried deep within the Cooper-Eromanga Basins of central Australia.