When the asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out the dinosaurs - but crocodiles survived. Why did one group vanish while the other thrived?

A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth. The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...

A study of dinosaur eggs from the time of their mass extinction has said the species was already on its way out before an asteroid struck. Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology ...

The asteroid was between 10 to 15 kilometers in diameter. “When a body like this is hitting the Earth with a velocity that’s estimated to be around 20 kilometers per second, this will release ...

Fossil records from North America indicate dinosaurs were still in their prime 66 million years ago, but the asteroid that struck Earth wiped them out anyway.

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x Yucatan Peninsula. But new research has revealed that there were at ...

Dinosaurs were on the up before asteroid downfall. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 12 / 221207142210.htm. University of Edinburgh.

Dinosaurs roamed the Earth 66 million years ago. A new study suggests that volcanic eruptions may have wiped them out before an asteroid.

Dinosaurs went extinct roughly 66 million years ago, marking the end of the Cretaceous Period, after an asteroid about 7 miles wide struck what is now the Yucatán peninsula off Mexico.

The 1,300-pound NASA spacecraft self-destructed by ramming into a harmless asteroid shortly after 7 p.m. ET on Sept. 26. The high-speed crash was in the name of planetary defense, part of the U.S ...

Drilling into the seafloor off Mexico, scientists have extracted a unique geologic record of the day 65 million years ago when a city-sized asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs and three-quarters of ...

A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth. The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...