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 ...

In the aftermath of the giant asteroid that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula about 66 million years ago, approximately 75% of all species on Earth were wiped out, including the dinosaurs. Among ...

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.

This documentary explores one of the strangest scientific possibilities ever proposed: could fragments of dinosaur bones be hiding on the Moon? The journey begins with the discovery that pieces of ...

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 ...

A new study reveals that tunas evolved their signature size, speed, and warm-bloodedness gradually over 50 million years rather than in rapid response to the mass extinction that ended the age of ...

About 66 million years ago, a space rock hurtled toward Earth and smashed into our planet along the coast of what’s now the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The impact kicked massive amounts of debris up ...

Researchers identified the Chicxulub impactor as an exceptionally rare type of asteroid that wouldn't have triggered a mass extinction in the way scientists previously thought. Reading time 3 minutes ...

The story of the dinosaur extinction gets retold so often that it starts to feel like settled trivia: a rock falls from the sky, the dinosaurs die, the end. Scientists have spent decades checking that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dinosaurs that survived the asteroid crash were 'baked or fried' by the heat trapped underneath the resultant dust cloud - ...

A great Tyrannosaurus rex strides through the conifer trees of her territory, sniffing the air. She picks up the scent from the carcass of a dead horned dinosaur, Triceratops, that she was feeding on ...

Crocodiles are the prototypical cold-blooded creature. Both figuratively and literally. According to new research published in Paleobiology and detailed by its authors in The Conversation, crocodiles ...