Apr 15 Tyrannosaurus Rex arrives via Fed Ex at Smithsonian Museum By News Desk A truck carrying a nearly-complete Tyrannosaurus Rex arrived at the loading dock of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History just after 6 a.m. EDT, Tuesday morning. The dinosaur had just completed its 2,000-mile journey from Bozeman, Mont., where… Continue reading
Nov 07 Watch As estimates of meteor strikes rise, how can Earth avoid destruction? As the risk of meteor strikes rises, how can Earth avoid destruction?… Continue watching
Mar 04 Study Reasserts That Asteroid Blast Wiped Out the Dinosaurs About 65 million years ago, a huge asteroid traveling 20 times faster than a bullet crashed into Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, sending up projectile debris with such force that the debris rained back down as far away as New Zealand. Continue reading
Feb 21 Watch Pittsburgh Museum Reinvents Model of Dinosaur Exhibit The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh renovated its dinosaur exhibit to provide a more realistic picture of how dinosaurs lived and interacted with one another more than 100 million years ago. Continue watching
Feb 14 2 Flesh-Eating Dinosaur Species Discovered By PBS News Hour Two new and unusual dinosaur species have been discovered in Africa, scientists announced Wednesday. Continue reading
Mar 29 New Study Finds Dinosaurs’ Extinction Had Little Impact on Mammal Evolution By PBS News Hour The extinction of dinosaurs over 65 million years ago did not foster a breeding ground for ancestors of modern-day mammals, as scientists had previously thought, according to a study released Thursday in the journal Nature. Continue reading