A newly described dinosaur that appears to have persisted beyond a catastrophic die-off is forcing scientists to rethink how mass extinctions actually play out on the ground. Instead of a clean break ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — The extinction of the dinosaurs may be ancient history, but that history continues to be rewritten, thanks in part to a professor at New Mexico State University. As Chad Brummett ...

The researchers began to suspect changes in geology was somehow related to the mass extinction of dinosaurs - called the Cretaceous-Paleogene, or K-Pg, mass extinction. They started to examine what ...

Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden extinction led to wide-scale changes in landscapes—including the shape of rivers—and these changes are reflected in the geologic record, ...

A site in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico is providing a rare glimpse into the last days of the dinosaurs. Rocks and fossils at the Naashoibito Member site show an ecosystem that was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden ...

Dinosaurs weren’t dying out before the asteroid hit—they were thriving in vibrant, diverse habitats across North America. Fossil evidence from New Mexico shows that distinct “bioprovinces” of ...

For a long time, the prevailing theory was that dinosaurs were already in decline before the Chicxulub asteroid struck Earth approximately 66 million years ago, leading to the extinction of about 70% ...

The end of the dinosaurs was clearly linked to an asteroid impact that brought the Cretaceous period to a close. But the details of their end have remained a matter of debate since the impact crater ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Alamosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs from ...

Throughout the past 600 million years there have been five major mass extinction events that devastated life on Earth. While some of these events are very well studied, such as the killer asteroid ...