Paleontologist Riley Black points out in her new book that the story of the dinosaurs is not prehistory, but an elegant premonition of what happens when a form of life believes itself eternal. 66 ...
The end of the dinosaurs was not just a spectacular finish, it was a brutal reset of life on Earth. In the geological instant ...
The Fort Union Formation was deposited after the extinction of dinosaurs, and looks like it's composed of stacks of different colored rocks—"pajama-striped looking beds," Weaver said. The brightly ...
Still, the mystery of why the geology of landscapes should have changed so much before and after dinosaurs' extinction remained. But then Dr. Weaver encountered a series of talks about how present-day ...