The cataclysmic asteroid Chicxulub hit the Earth with a catastrophic impact, it obliterated the biggest and heaviest living ...

Everyone knows about the meteor that ended the age of dinosaurs - except that it wasn’t the biggest extinction event. Long ...

The aftereffects of the collision resulted in the extinction of an estimated 75% of animal species, including most dinosaurs except for birds. But practically nothing of the asteroid itself remains.

Around 66 million years ago, a cataclysmic asteroid struck Earth, marking the end of the Cretaceous period and bringing about ...

including the dinosaurs, and ushering the end of the Cretaceous period have long been debated. However, the most widely accepted theory for the mass extinction is that an asteroid (or, perhaps a ...

A new study challenges long-held assumptions about survival following a global catastrophe. If you're an animal trying to ...

“Dinosaurs were probably not inevitably doomed to extinction at the end of the Mesozoic,” Chiarenza said. “If it weren’t for that asteroid, they might still share this planet with ...

then shrank until the asteroid strike wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs. This trend was even more pronounced in the 6 million years before the mass extinction, with the number of fossils from all ...

“Dinosaurs were probably not inevitably doomed to extinction at the end of the Mesozoic. If it weren’t for that asteroid, they might still share this planet with mammals, lizards, and their ...

Planetary boundaries outline how far past pre-industrial conditions Earth can get before anthropogenic activity has ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many ... How the dinosaur-killing extinction could help save modern bivalves. by James Ashworth, ...

Scientists are using fossils to help uncover how ancient life survived mass extinction, offering insights for modern conservation efforts.