The story of the dinosaur extinction gets retold so often that it starts to feel like settled trivia: a rock falls from 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 ...

A Cataclysm and Its Feathered Survivors About 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into Earth. The devastation and climate upheaval it triggered are now counted among the chief drivers of ...

Almost 66 million years ago, an asteroid hit Earth – and changed our planet forever. From tsunamis to shockwaves, join us on ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — The extinction of the dinosaurs may be ancient history, but that history continues to be rewritten, thanks in part to a professor at New Mexico State University. As Chad Brummett ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

Just a few hundred thousand years after an asteroid wiped out most dinosaurs, large alligators were thriving in North America ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the impacts of this ancient event, scientists hope to ensure that mussels, ...

Dinosaurs may have met their end not over months or years, but in the span of a brutal afternoon. A new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences argues that the asteroid that hit ...

The Cretaceous Era—roughly 145 to 66 million years ago—was the last hurrah of the dinosaurs. A massive asteroid impact brought them to a violent end, but there’s more to the story. The Cretaceous ...