A new study challenges long-held assumptions about survival following a global catastrophe. If you're an animal trying to survive a mass extinction, your best bet might be to carve out a truly unique ...

And the vaporization of rock along the seafloor unleashed gasses that sent the climate into wild swings—all of which led to the extinction ... from the dinosaur-killing asteroid.

Mass extinctions clearly upend the status quo. Now, our ocean floors are dominated by clams burrowed into sand and mud, the quahogs, cockles and their relatives – a scene far different from that of ...

The Chicxulub crater, located off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, is one of the most significant geological ...

The CNSA said the Tianwen 2 mission is expected to accomplish multiple objectives through a single expedition, including the ...

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

The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the ... which triggered a mass extinction event over much of Earth's land and ocean ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth. The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...

The asteroid responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs created a much larger crater – 160 km wide – at Chicxulub on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Dr Nicholson said the “closest ...

The dinosaurs—besides the ancestors of modern birds, of course—went extinct 66 million years ... the research team published images of the asteroid impact crater, confirmed its age at 66 ...

New research that contradicts previous studies suggest dinosaurs were in decline for as many as 10 million years before the asteroid that dealt their final death blow.