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A new study has found dinosaur footprints in sandstone embedded between fossilized lava dating back 183 million years in southern Africa. During this time in the early Jurassic period, a mass ...

Fossilized footprints reveal dinosaurs thrived in the Karoo Basin, a region in South Africa — despite the fact that it was full of lava. Before now, researchers had no idea that dinosaurs and ...

Two years ago, Emese M. Bordy, a sedimentologist at the University of Cape Town, was flipping through an obscure dissertation from the 1960s when a clue leapt out at her. It was an image of a ...

Did dinosaurs lose their dominance suddenly or gradually? Some scientists think the answer lies locked within the remnants of long-dormant volcanoes. Massive beds of ancient lava found around the ...

The mass extinction that wiped out nearly all life on Earth just before the dinosaurs evolved may have been caused by a global temperature drop rather than a rapidly warming climate. The End Triassic ...

Ask someone how the dinosaurs died, and chances are they will tell you about an apocalyptically bad day 66 million years ago, when a huge asteroid slammed into Earth and triggered a nuclear winter.