In addition to ending the reign of the dinosaurs, the direct hit triggered a mass extinction of 75% of animal and plant life on the planet. When the asteroid hit, it created a series of ...

“It’s been a subject of debate for more than 30 years — were dinosaurs doomed and already on their way out before the asteroid hit?” Dean said in a statement. “We analysed the fossil ...

Whether you're a curious learner or a dino enthusiast, here are 7 incredible dinosaur facts that will blow your mind and ...

But what if I told you that the dinosaurs were already doomed well before that asteroid hit? According to this new study, the dinosaurs were already doomed because sulfur levels in the atmosphere ...

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

Other factors, most notably a vulnerable sub-population of big plant eaters, essentially left the dinosaurs ripe for the asteroid wipe-out. "If the asteroid hit five million years later or earlier ...

Yet, he says, this doesn’t change the bigger picture of dinosaurs being in decline before the asteroid hit. Even if dinosaurs were still populous and dominant towards the end of the Cretaceous p ...

Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that dinosaur diversity was declining before the asteroid struck 66 million ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - The age of dinosaurs ended in cataclysm one spring day 66 million years ago when an asteroid 7.5 miles (12 km) wide hit Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, triggering the ...

Lead author Dr. Chris Dean (UCL Earth Sciences) said, "It's been a subject of debate for more than 30 years—were dinosaurs doomed and already on their way out before the asteroid hit?

but it's clear that different dinosaur faunas were living on other landmasses when the asteroid hit," Lamanna said. "For instance, marine rocks that date to the latest Mesozoic in Morocco have ...

"It wouldn't be something like the rock that killed the dinosaurs," Harwood ... When concerns over the asteroid were first raised, there was a possibility it could hit over the eastern Pacific ...