Nuclear war is much more unpredictable than asteroids, but, unlike the dinosaurs of 66 million years ago, humans can avoid causing their own extinction.

Against a backdrop of increased tension among the world’s major powers, the risks and effects of nuclear war have received ...

Mammoth Cave National Park is the obvious companion destination, offering underground wonders to complement the aboveground ...

A badly mangled dinosaur skull, once forgotten in a drawer, turned out to be a rare and important discovery. Reconstructed by a Virginia Tech student, it revealed a new species of early carnivorous ...

Dinosaurs have been fearsome and fascinating — but tragic? When science said dinosaurs were pea-brained and cold-blooded, humans took their demise as proof of the superiority of warm, clever mammals.

For over 100 million years, squid and cuttlefish quietly evolved in the darkness of the deep ocean, invisible to the catastrophic forces reshaping life on Earth's surface. When a mass extinction event ...

Scientists uncovered a rare baby dinosaur in South Korea and named it Doolysaurus after a famous cartoon character. Using cutting-edge CT scans, they discovered hidden bones—including a skull—inside ...

From “The Flintstones” to “Jurassic Park” to “The Land Before Time,” dinosaurs have captured people’s imaginations on screen for generations, but maybe not quite like they have in Netflix’s new ...

When Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park came out in 1993, it changed the way we looked at dinosaurs. No longer were they drawings in a book or stop-motion in a cheesy movie. Thanks in part to the genius ...

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Netflix is taking us back, not a few decades but millions of years to the era of dinosaurs. The streamer has revealed its official trailer, key art, and release date for the upcoming documentary ...

A creature the size of a dog, with claws and wrist spikes like a prehistoric multitool, has just entered the spotlight. Unearthed in Mongolia, its fossil preserved details never seen before in a ...