Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

Study by UChicago, Smithsonian, UK Natural History Museum challenges assumptions about survival after global catastrophe ...

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

This was the iridium layer. Here on the bank of the Brazos, I was holding microscopic pieces of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs– fragments from the event that gave mammals a chance to ...

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young.

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young. The same was true 73 million years ago, according to a new article. The ...

If you are sneezing this spring, you are not alone. Every year, plants release billions of pollen grains into the air, specks of male reproductive material that many of us notice only when we get ...

Could the dinosaurs and other forms of life have been killed off by a shock from space ... Research since then has only further implicated the ancient asteroid. In 2010, a group of 41 researchers ...

NASA tracks five near-Earth asteroids flying close to our planet this week. Despite their size, none pose a threat for at ...

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young.