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An imagined scene from the end of the Cretaceous Period, more than 66 million years ago, has the newly identified softshell turtle Hutchemys walkerorum dwelling alongside iconic species from the Age of the Dinosaurs. (Image: Sergey Krasovskiy)

Newly identified softshell turtle lived alongside T. rex and Triceratops

Geology Page - March 13, 2022

Zircon Crystals of the mineral zircon are tiny time-capsules that record the age of many events in Earth’s history. Dating zircon crystals like this was one of the two methods used to calculate the age of the Hiawatha impact crater. Illustration: Gavin Kenny, Swedish Museum of Natural History.

Giant impact crater in Greenland occurred a few million years after dinosaurs went extinct

Evidence suggests an asteroid impact that killed off most dinosaurs might have happened in spring. Credit: Joschua Knüppe

The reign of the dinosaurs ended in spring

Researchers discover first evidence indicating dinosaur respiratory infection

First evidence indicating dinosaur respiratory infection

Images of different fossil remains of Abditosaurus kuehnei at the Orcau-1 site (a), the excavation process (b and c) and the neck after fossil preparation (d).

Large new titanosaurian dinosaur from the Pyrenees

Hadrosaur with huge nose discovered

Geology Page - September 20, 2014

Impact that doomed the dinosaurs helped the forests bloom

Geology Page - September 17, 2014

Giant predatory dinosaur Spinosaurus was scourge of prehistoric rivers

Geology Page - September 13, 2014

Scientists report first semiaquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus

Geology Page - September 12, 2014

Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania

Geology Page - September 10, 2014

Dreadnoughtus: Gigantic, exceptionally complete sauropod dinosaur

Geology Page - September 5, 2014

Paleontologists describe a possible dinosaur nest and young ‘babysitter’

Geology Page - August 28, 2014

New species of flying pterosaur

Geology Page - August 14, 2014

Early dino was turkey-sized, social plant-eater

Geology Page - August 9, 2014

How do you make a bird? Shrink a dinosaur for 50...

Geology Page - August 3, 2014

Shrinking dinosaurs evolved into flying birds

Geology Page - August 1, 2014

Fossils found in Siberia suggest all dinosaurs could have been feathered

Geology Page - July 30, 2014

Dinosaurs fell victim to perfect storm of events, study shows

Geology Page - July 29, 2014

Leaf-mining insects destroyed with the dinosaurs, others quickly appeared

Geology Page - July 25, 2014

New feathered predatory fossil sheds light on dinosaur flight

Geology Page - July 16, 2014

Birdlike fossil challenges notion that birds evolved from ground-dwelling dinosaurs

Geology Page - July 10, 2014

T. rex’s killer smile revealed

Geology Page - June 19, 2014

New horned dinosaur reveals unique wing-shaped headgear

Geology Page - June 18, 2014

Warm blooded or cold? Dinosaurs were somewhere in between

Geology Page - June 15, 2014

Why Diplodocus did not put all her eggs in one basket

Geology Page - June 12, 2014

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