This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic ... ended the reign of the dinosaurs, wiping out a group of creatures that had ruled the planet for 135 million years.

This story appears in the October 2020 issue of National Geographic ... planet. As continents drifted apart and recombined—and as temperatures and sea levels rose and fell—dinosaurs persisted.

The odd thing about this little experiment was that it was fundamentally about dinosaurs ... An engraving of the scene created a national sensation in Great Britain. Bone hunters scrambled ...

Prehistoric time line, geologic time scale, photos, facts, maps, and more from National ... years after dinosaurs went extinct, modern humans emerged in the Cenozoic era. The planet has seen ...

At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants ... crater caused the extinction of more than half the planet's species at the end of the Cretaceous remains a matter of ...

4 min read When the Devonian period dawned about 416 million years ago the planet was changing its appearance ... limbed land vertebrates, including dinosaurs and mammals. The fossils of these ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... a new genus and species of dinosaur with movie-monster looks. Well protectedOsteoderms—bony armor plates—cover ...

This story appears in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... are often said to be sur­vivors from the age of dinosaurs. That's true as far as it goes: Modern crocs have ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... “I was amazed by these dinosaur skeletons in the middle of New York,” he says. Every summer he digs in the ...