What starts with the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs quickly becomes a journey through the entire rise of modern life on ...

A tiny mammal called Cimolodon desosai from the dinosaur era is helping scientists understand how mammals survived extinction.

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. But we mammals did survive. The characteristics we now equate with “mammalness” are ...

A great Tyrannosaurus rex strides through the conifer trees of her territory, sniffing the air. She picks up the scent from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula in what is modern-day Mexico. (Mark Garlick) The ...

Researchers reconstructed the Triassic food web using nothing but scat. Researchers have conducted what could be the largest study ever of dinosaur poop. The findings shed new light on how dinosaur's ...

Scientists have discovered a long hidden plate boundary near the east coast of Africa that dates back about 180 million years ...

Experts have revealed how the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs sparked a hellish apocalypse of supersonic winds, acid rain ...

Rocks formed immediately before and after non-avian dinosaurs went extinct are strikingly different, and now, tens of millions of years later, scientists think they’ve identified the culprit—and it ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

We have come to the end of history, if history can be counted as something that has already happened. In this last chapter, let’s gaze into the future. In keeping with the rest of this book, we will ...