Scientists are narrowing down the type of space rock that caused the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period, and ...

Scientists are still reconstructing the event from tiny chemical traces.

A nuclear engineer reacts to Kurzgesagt’s explanation of the asteroid impact linked to the dinosaur extinction and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the final day of the Cretaceous period, some 66 million years ago, Earth was teeming with a dazzling variety of dinosaurs. In ...

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A new study using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) has revealed that the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago caused only a modest decline in shark and ray species.

A feather discovered inside 66-million-year-old fossilized dinosaur poop may help explain why modern birds survived the ...

Purdue researchers say the Chicxulub impact threw up a dust cloud that trapped heat across Earth. The finding suggests this global blanket, not the collision alone, sealed the dinosaurs' fate.

The 66-million-year-old feather found inside fossilised dinosaur poop may offer clues about why some birds survived the ...

According to a new study published in Science Advances, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was a bit of a weird-o, as mass murderers tend to be. It wasn’t the antisocial freak that neighbors would ...