For more than 160 million years, dinosaurs dominated life on Earth. They survived shifting continents, volcanic eruptions, changing climates and countless evolutionary challenges, becoming 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.

An extremely well preserved fossil feather could reveal why some birds survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid, and others did ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid about the size of Mount Everest smacked into Earth near where the Yucatan Peninsula is today. That impact created the Chicxulub crater ...

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 ...

This painting by Donald E. Davis depicts an asteroid slamming into tropical, shallow seas of the sulfur-rich Yucatan Peninsula in what is today southeast Mexico. Wikipedia Sixty-six million years ago, ...

Dinosaurs that survived the asteroid crash were ‘baked or fried’ by the heat trapped underneath the resultant dust cloud - mikdam/iStockphoto Dinosaurs roasted to death in a hellish “oven” created by ...

Scientists found a rare fossil feather, bird bones and fish scales inside dinosaur poop from Montana, revealing a prehistoric ...