A team of geologists, paleontologists, and climate scientists with members from institutions in Mexico, the U.S., and Spain ...

Now, more than a decade later, new analysis of the fossils has found that they belong to a new 73-million-year-old species, according to a study published Jan. 28 in the peer-reviewed journal ...

A new genus and species of Ornithomimidae, Mexidracon longimanus, has been identified from the ornithomimosaur material.

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

For those fascinated by ancient Earth, there is an amazing exhibit located right here in Albuquerque. The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science is gearing up to open its Bradbury Stamm ...

Scientists have reevaluated the catastrophic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid that struck 66 million years ago, revising the ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10–15 kilometers in diameter, struck the Yucatán Peninsula (in current-day Mexico), creating a 200-kilometer-wide ...

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the ... impact crater 66 million years ago. A new study questions this scenario.

But the Utah dinosaurs were different. “Almost every animal was a new species,” Sampson said. And it wasn’t just the dinosaurs, but also the mammals, fishes, lizards, turtles, and crocodiles.

The name México derives from the Aztec capital Mexico-Tenochtitlán, conquered by the Spanish in 1521 and center of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. According to a map of 1607, shown by the Mexican ...