Fossils reveal dinosaurs were flourishing in diverse ecosystems right up until the asteroid impact ended their reign.

Learning how pronghorn survived the climate changes that ended the ice ages anddrove so many other large mammals to ...

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

A rare sample from a woolly rhinoceroses reveals how the population changed in the lead-up to the species’ extinction.

Radioactive minerals in eggshells can help scientists pinpoint a fossil’s age with stunning accuracy. Scientists excavate dinosaur egg nests in Mongolia's Eastern Gobi Basin. National Geographic ...

IT seems the political temperature in the federal capital fell by quite a few degrees this weekend. After weeks of fire and fury, which seems to have culminated this Saturday in a slate of fresh ...

Not all dinosaurs were giants roaming open plains. Some lived high in dense forests, gliding between trees with wings made of feathers and skin. This documentary explores small, dragon-like dinosaurs ...

Winter has well and truly arrived; the first snow has fallen (magical) and icy paths are increasingly posing a challenge on morning commutes now (less so). But we're not the only ones feeling the ...

In what is now approaching an honest-to-goodness tradition, below we've put together our list of the many games we're most ...

BLOEMFONTEIN (SOUTH AFRICA): (Jan 4) What makes mountain birds sing at dawn – and why are they sometimes quiet? Ecologists explain Three species of the melodic African warbler bird refuse to get up ...

Did mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers and other Ice Age megafauna face a similar, impact-induced fate to the dinosaurs? That’s ...