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.

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 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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

The summer movie season arrived Friday with the release of "Thunderbolts*," the latest Marvel adventure and the kickoff of ...

Most people have no clue how their stuff moves around the world. But a few years ago, when a gigantic containership got stuck ...

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 150 million years. Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans ...

The repeated evolution of huge birds is part of the dinosaurian legacy. Beaked birds were the only dinosaurs to have survived ...