“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 ...

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 ...

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?

A massive asteroid, expected to be larger than San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, will pass close to Earth on June 5.

A colossal asteroid, larger than San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, is set to pass near Earth on June 5, ranking among the ...

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"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 ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

A duck-billed Hadrosaurus was unearthed in Haddonfield, New Jersey, in 1858. Just 12 miles from this Mantua museum site, the ...