How did the dinosaurs die? Dust may solve the case

New clues may finally have solved the case of how the dinosaurs went extinct, dating their doom to 66 million years ago, researchers report.

Monica Kortsha-UT Austin • futurity
March 2, 2021 • ~7 min

Scientists have found dust from the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs inside the crater it left

A new study found iridium, an element found in asteroids, in the rocks of the Chicxulub impact crater.

Queenie Hoi Shan Chan, Lecturer in Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway • conversation
March 2, 2021 • ~6 min

Fossils hint earliest primates lived with dinosaurs

The ancestor of all primates, including today's lemurs and apes, probably lived alongside large dinosaurs, the earliest known fossil evidence shows.

Andrea Godinez-U. Washington • futurity
Feb. 26, 2021 • ~5 min

New theory behind Chicxulub impactor that killed the dinosaurs

New theory explains origin of comet that killed the dinosaurs.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Feb. 15, 2021 • ~7 min

600K alligator and bird poses hint how dinosaurs moved

3D imaging technology used to analyze nearly 600,000 limb poses of modern birds and alligators offers clues to how dinosaurs moved from place to place.

Corrie Pikul-Brown • futurity
Feb. 11, 2021 • ~6 min

Duckbill dinosaur’s skull solves long-standing crest mystery

An exceptionally well-preserved skull of the duckbill dinosaur Parasaurolophus solves mysteries of its signature crest and family tree.

Tracey Peake-NC State • futurity
Feb. 3, 2021 • ~4 min

Dinosaurs may have 'flashed' each other with their bottoms, newly discovered fossil shows

A reconstruction of a dinosaur's back passage reveals it may have been used for visual communication.

Diane A. Kelly, Senior Research Fellow, University of Massachusetts Amherst • conversation
Jan. 22, 2021 • ~6 min

Crocodiles today look the same as they did 200 million years ago – our study explains why

New research shows crocodiles have landed upon an equilibrium state of evolution.

Max Stockdale, Teaching Associate, Vertebrate Macroevolution and Palaeoecology, University of Bristol • conversation
Jan. 7, 2021 • ~6 min

Scientists Discover How Some Dinosaurs Grew So Big
VOA Learning English • voa
Dec. 3, 2020 • ~3 min

Pterosaurs increased their flight efficiency over time – new evidence for long-term evolution

Fossils reveal that dinosaurs' flying cousins become twice as efficient at flying over 150 million years.

Michael J. Benton, Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of Bristol • conversation
Oct. 28, 2020 • ~6 min

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