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

way before the dinosaur-killing impact. Finding ruthenium in the Chicxulub crater samples eliminates other meteorite types and supports the hypothesis that the Chicxulub asteroid came from the ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

And our new data show that the Chicxulub impactor was a carbonaceous-type asteroid. RACHEL FELTMAN: So the Chicxulub impactor that killed the dinos was basically ... RACHEL FELTMAN: Wow. So the ...

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 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.

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