The cataclysmic asteroid Chicxulub hit the Earth with a catastrophic impact, it obliterated the biggest and heaviest living ...

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Researchers found that night lizards survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous, despite ...

More than a century of fossils pulled from the ground told a straightforward story: dinosaurs thrived, then declined, then vanished in a fiery cataclysm 66 million years ago. The idea is that non ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and unexposed late Cretaceous rock layers mean they're either not preserved or ...

Dinosaurs likely weren’t declining before an asteroid wiped them all out; instead, there may just be limited fossils from that time period, according to a new study.. It has been hotly debated ...

The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the ...

It’s a long-standing debate in paleontology: Were dinosaurs thriving when an asteroid hit Earth one fateful spring day 66 million years ago, or were they already on their way out, ...

Starlink satellites are at risk if a “city killer” asteroid crashes into the Moon, experts have warned. The European Space ...

I was preparing for my early morning class back in January 2025 when I received a notice regarding an asteroid called 2024 ...