Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

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

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

Scientists have discovered that the near 9-mile diameter asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs also triggered a “mile high” tsunami that spread across the globe, according to EurekAlert ...

“So far, Chicxulub, among the 500-million-year-old impactors, seems to be a unique and rare case of a carbonaceous-type asteroid hitting Earth,” Dr. Fischer-Gödde said.

How does this tie into the theory that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs? As the theory goes, a 6-mile-wide meteor plunged ...

Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Earth, blasted debris everywhere, plummeted the planet into cold darkness, and ended the age of dinosaurs. (Though birds survived, of course.) ...

It's well known that the reign of the dinosaurs came to an end when a giant asteroid smashed into Earth 66 million years ago. But a new study suggests that this huge asteroid wasn't alone.

The asteroid responsible for our last mass extinction 66 million years ago — wiping out the dinosaurs — originated from the far reaches of our solar system, unlike most asteroids that have ...

The results point to a roughly 1-in-10 chance that the asteroid would usher in a large-scale extinction, and that means that there was something like a 90% chance that dinosaurs would have ...

We Know the Origins of the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs. New evidence points to a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer solar system as the culprit for Earth’s most recent mass extinction.