Crocodile relatives followed warm climates for millions of years. New models suggest tropical refuges helped some survive the ...

The story of the dinosaur extinction gets retold so often that it starts to feel like settled trivia: a rock falls from the sky, the dinosaurs die, the end. Scientists have spent decades checking that ...

Triceratops, and all other non-avian dinosaurs vanished. Only one branch of the dinosaur family tree survived—birds. But what ...

Crocodiles' preference for warm climates, low energy needs and ability to survive without food may explain how they outlasted ...

The asteroid impact that led to the mass extinction of dinosaurs about 66 million years ago also triggered massive earthquakes across the planet that lasted for "weeks to months," according to new ...

Around 250 million years ago, crocodiles and their archosaur relatives faced a significant extinction event. Their survival ...

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According to a new study published in Science Advances, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was a bit of a weird-o, as mass murderers tend to be. It wasn’t the antisocial freak that neighbors would ...

Dinosaurs may have met their end not over months or years, but in the span of a brutal afternoon. A new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences argues that the asteroid that hit ...

Questions abound about dinosaurs’ brains, behaviour and lives. James Woodford finds some answers in Jean Le Loeuff's book ...

Millions of 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. As ...

Dinosaurs and crocodilians popped up around the same time roughly 245 million years ago, but only one group survived the asteroid impact 65 million years ago (avian dinosaurs, aside). But why?