For a long time, scientists have debated what caused the dinosaurs to die out 66 million years ago. Was it a huge asteroid or ...

After the extinction of the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous mass extinction (the fifth mass extinction) about 66 million ...

The geological layer marks the point when the non-avian dinosaurs and many other species were killed by a cataclysmic event.

We’ve all been told that the largest extinction event on Earth was caused by a meteor, but what if that’s not the case? In ...

Chicxulub is the asteroid impact that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs and many other living organisms across the planet 66 ...

Kiwi scientists are venturing into Antarctica’s remote reaches to study a devastating event that wiped out life across Earth – and what they learn could yield important insights into how ...

Dec. 2, 2024 — Scientists now know how many bonobos live in one of the largest pristine tropical forests, a place believed to be the world's stronghold for the endangered species. The research ...

XA1, struck Earth on Dec. 3, 2024, burning up over Siberia. It's the 11th detected before impact. No damage was reported.

While both groups survived as a whole, many species went extinct. Among the casualties were the shastasaurid ichthyosaurs, a ...

This was not the mass-extinction event that brought an end to the age of dinosaurs, but rather cleared the path for their further evolution and subsequent dominance over the Earth. The sediments ...

Researchers believe that fossilized feces and vomit from dinosaurs can shed light on how the ancient creatures evolved to ...