What happened in the days, even hours, after an asteroid set off the fifth extinction? A New Jersey quarry, and site of a new museum founded by paleontologist Ken Lacovara, sheds light on the mystery.

The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in ...

Ken Lacovara is something of a paleontology rock star. In 2004, he discovered the Dreadnoughtus, a new dinosaur species that later debuted on the big screen in Jurassic World Dominion. Lacovara has ...

An experiment on reptile decomposition aims to shed light on a variety of paleontological mysteries, including why so many ...

During the Cretaceous, Alaska was even farther north than it is today and part of the state would have experienced four months of total darkness. NOVA is available to stream on pbs.org and the free ...

Even the mighty T. rex was covered in creepy, crawly parasites. Discover what plagued the dinosaurs in this episode of Gross Science. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle ...