Did insects kill the dinosaurs?
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Science & environment: Dinosaurs may have been pushed towards extinction by humble insects, not meteorites
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SPACE.com / Paleontologists from Montana and Mongolia, who want to flesh out the developmental biology of dinosaurs, recently found 67 dinosaur skeletons in the Gobi Desert in just one week.
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Fossils from extinct dogs show why bigger is not better -- giant meat-eating animals died out because they relied too heavily on hunting other big animals, scientists reported on Thursday.
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Two previously unknown types of meat-eating dinosaur have been identified from Sahara desert fossils.
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By J. Hope Babowice  You wanted to know  Ricardo Silva, 10, of Mundelein wanted to know:  How long ago did dinosaurs live?  If you have a question you'd like Kids Ink to answer, write Kids Ink, care of the Daily Herald, 1795 N.
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Fossils  uncovered in New Mexico  show dinosaurs co-existed with a closely related group of reptiles for millions  of years before overtaking them to become the dominant land animals on Earth.
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Tropical honeybees survived the devastating nuclear winter thought to have helped kill off the dinosaurs.
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By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Correspondent | October 15, 2004. The first vertebrate species to begin hopping and crawling on land 350 million years ago may be the first to die out, according to a study released
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A collision 160 million years ago of  two asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter sent many big  rock chunks hurtling toward Earth, including the one that  zapped the dinosaurs, scientists said on Wednesday.
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In China, scientists have identified the fossilized remains of a tiny dinosaur in the stomach of a mammal. Scientists say the animal's last meal probably is the first proof that mammals hunted small dinosaurs some 130 million years ago.
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Dinosaurs shared the Earth for millions of years with the species that were their ancestors, a new study concludes. Dinosaurs arose in the Late Triassic, between 235 million and 200 million years ago, and came to dominate the planet in the Jurassic, 200 million to 120 million years ago.
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Villagers in central China spent decades digging up bones they believed belonged to flying dragons and using them in traditional medicines. Turns out the bones belonged to dinosaurs, and now scientists are doing the digging.
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Contrary to the movie Jurassic Park, in which scientists recreate dinosaurs from ancient DNA, genetic material more than about 50 thousand years old cannot be reliably recovered.
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A re-assessed fossil from a Velociraptor dinosaur suggests the animal was probably covered in feathers.
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Scientists have uncovered the fossil skeleton of a robust bird-like dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago.
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Researchers find evidence that dinosaurs reached sexual maturity earlier than believed.
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Nearly 200 hippopotamuses are dead after an anthrax outbreak in western Uganda. Wildlife officials in the East African nation said Tuesday 194 Hippos had died In Queen Elizabeth National Park since July.