When did the dinosaurs go extinct? - New Scientist
The secret of the dinosaurs’ success was luck: they were in the right place at the right time. And, like their demise, their origins and heyday were triggered by huge, catastrophic mass extinctions.
End of an era: how long did it take the dinosaurs to die out?
Oct 9, 2019 · Dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago, apparently as a result of an asteroid impact. How much time elapsed between that event and the death of the very last dinosaur?
There’s growing evidence the big five mass ... - New Scientist
Jun 2, 2025 · “It’s a big deal that the non-avian dinosaurs go extinct at the end of the Cretaceous. That said, I don’t think it’s really a mass extinction.”
Why did some species survive the Cretaceous-Palaeogene …
Jan 15, 2025 · Why did crocodiles, turtles, lizards and birds survive the Cretaceous-Palaeogene extinction event, but non-avian dinosaurs didn’t? Mike Follows Sutton Coldfield, West …
Chicxulub: The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs - New Scientist
The Chicxulub impactor is widely thought to have changed all that, leading to the dinosaur’s eventual extinction (and the evolution of surviving dinosaurs into today’s birds).
Dinosaurs may have already been going extinct before the …
Jun 29, 2021 · Even before an enormous asteroid struck Earth, dinosaurs may have been losing species diversity There is new evidence that the diversity of non-avian dinosaur species may …
Rethink of fossils hints dinosaurs still thrived before asteroid hit
Apr 8, 2025 · They found many fossils of dinosaurs from 84 million to 75 million years ago – and then that number drops in the following 9 million years leading up to the Chicxulub impact. But …
Diversity helped mammals survive asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
Dec 7, 2022 · The conventional view of the age of the dinosaurs is that mammals lived in the shadows until the day the asteroid hit, but a new analysis shows they were already …
African T. rex was one of last dinosaurs alive before extinction
May 4, 2017 · One of the last dinosaurs living in Africa before their extinction 66 million years ago has been discovered in a phosphate mine in northern Morocco. The scientist who made the …
When was the Triassic period? | New Scientist
The Triassic period stands out in Earth’s history as the time when dinosaurs first evolved. It was followed by the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods – at the end of the latter, the dinosaurs ...