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

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

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

Scientists are still reconstructing the event from tiny chemical traces.

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 ...

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.

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A lucky find of fossilized dinosaur poop in eastern Montana gave scientists their first look at which birds may have survived ...

The asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs may have been far rarer, drier and less sulfur-rich than scientists once thought. Traces buried in clay now point toward an unusual meteorite with roots in ...

A remarkably preserved feather from a dinosaur’s last meal offers new clues to why some birds survived the K-Pg catastrophe.

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 ...