More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

Recent research conducted by the University of Bristol hypothesizes that mammals started to adapt to a more ground-oriented ...

Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation following the impact that wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs.

This sudden impact created tsunamis stretching one mile tall and racing outward from the asteroid’s dino-killing blow. As those waves raced toward present-day Louisiana (which was largely ...

It’s fun to imagine secret dinosaur survivors living today, hidden in a remote corner of Earth. But the truth of who made it ...

Dinosaur tracks fossilised on the ground on ... Previous studies have found that the nearly 10km-wide asteroid that slammed into the water near what is now Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula triggered ...

The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach ...

An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. The crash left a giant crater around 110 ... Additionally, sulfur in the atmosphere from the asteroid impact then fell as acid rain, killing off tiny plants that ...

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.