If pollen allergies are getting to you, you are not alone. Every year, plants release billions of pollen grains into the air, ...

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

Long-necked sauropods ruled the land during the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages. These plant-eating giants appeared on every ...

Philippe Claeys Previous studies have unearthed chemical signatures in the K-Pg boundary that also implicated a carbonaceous asteroid in the death of the non-avian dinosaurs and about two thirds ...

But a new study suggests that this huge asteroid wasn ... was that small mammals ate dinosaur eggs and another proposes that toxic angiosperms (flowering plants) killed them off.

They eventually linked the layer’s origin to the dinosaur-killing impact and its ... Was the impactor an asteroid instead of a comet—and if so, what type? Where in the vastness of space ...

The asteroid responsible for our last mass ... that happened to encounter here," Tissot said. "So the one that killed the dinosaurs is really special in two ways — by what it did, and also ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West ...

The asteroid that killed most dinosaurs 66 million years ago left behind traces of its own origin. Researchers think they know where the Chicxulub impactor came from based on levels of ruthenium.

Therefore, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was probably a carbonaceous chondrite, an ancient space rock that often contains water, clay and organic (carbon-bearing) compounds. While ...

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the shape of ... According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur extinction came quickly, the impact must have spelled the cataclysmic ...

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