New study finds dinosaurs weren’t declining before asteroid impact; a biased fossil record misled decades of paleontology.

An asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous Period ended the dinosaurs, but earlier smaller extinctions dramatically set the ...

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 ...

For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive ...

Not far from College Station, Texas, we saw an echo of the event that, 66 million years ago, radically changed life on Earth.

It’s quite remarkable that a class of animals that turn up their toes at a bit of pollution could survive the asteroid strike ...

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

New discoveries in the Dominican Republic suggest sebecids roamed the Caribbean as recently as 4.5 million years ago, long ...