Having arisen some 200 million years ago, they have outlived the dinosaurs by some 65 million years ... body devoted to conserving crocodilians of all stripes. NOVA: Why did crocodilians survive ...

The findings also imply that endothermy can’t fully explain why warm-blooded animals such as birds escaped the fate of the rest of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, though the paper doesn’t offer an ...

It is widely agreed that such an object -- 10 kilometers across -- struck just off the coast of the Yucatan peninsula 65 million ... just the dinosaurs, but of up to 70 percent of all plants ...

Adaptable dinosaurs had it all covered. Dinosaurs could have comfortably colonised ... The impact that ended the golden age of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago made for an extremely bad dinosaur day ...

All of the Triassic archosaurs (the ruling reptiles) who had evolved since the last great extinction were made extinct apart from the dinosaurs, pterosaurs and crocodiles. Other victims were ...

All these feather types have been found in ... Since the last of the non-avian dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago during the mass extinction that closed the curtain on the Cretaceous period ...

The associated changes in the climate and vegetation affected how dinosaurs evolved. All continents during the Triassic Period were part of a single land mass called Pangaea. This meant that ...

Many features and behaviours that characterise living birds were also found in their dinosaur ancestors. Perhaps most surprising of all was the discovery of dinosaurs with feathers. It completely ...