A new study shows that one group of dinosaurs was on the rise right before the asteroid hit. What does that tell us about ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...

The aftereffects of the collision resulted in the extinction of an estimated 75% of animal species, including most dinosaurs except for birds. But practically nothing of the asteroid itself remains.

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

For decades, scientists have debated the true cause behind the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs, and in this video, we finally explore the REAL reason they went extinct. While the asteroid impact ...

Asteroid hunter Jacqueline Fazekas started the evening of Sept. 4, 2024, much like she spends half of every lunar month: seated in front of the computer monitor at Mt. Lemmon Observatory near ...

then shrank until the asteroid strike wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs. This trend was even more pronounced in the 6 million years before the mass extinction, with the number of fossils from all ...

including the dinosaurs, and ushering the end of the Cretaceous period have long been debated. However, the most widely accepted theory for the mass extinction is that an asteroid (or, perhaps a ...

“Dinosaurs were probably not inevitably doomed to extinction at the end of the Mesozoic. If it weren’t for that asteroid, they might still share this planet with mammals, lizards, and their ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to ... climate change that eventually led to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs and in total about 75% of species ...

It was caused by a giant asteroid, possibly 9 to 14.5 kilometers ... future extinction of life the Anthropocene extinction. The history of dinosaur extinctions is a powerful reminder of just ...