Scientists have reevaluated the catastrophic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid that struck 66 million years ago, revising the ...

Ask any dinosaurs. Oh, wait… Granted you also need a way to redirect them, but interest in finding them has picked up lately including a new privately funded program called the Asteroid Institute.

(Henry Sharpe) (CN) — An international team of paleontologists and ecologists hope their study, published Wednesday in Science Advances, will resolve the ongoing debate on the dinosaurs’ status before ...

Artwork: The asteroid hit what is now the Gulf ... Clearly, it made no difference for the dinosaurs, but it might have done for certain mammals, birds and plants. It could have made all the ...

If you’ve seen Netflix’s hit film, Don’t Look Up, or have ever heard about how an asteroid ended the age of dinosaurs 66 million ... Meteor Organisation said no meteorites had been recovered.

Where that asteroid or comet came from ... co-author of the study. “The fate of the dinosaurs and many other species was sealed by this projectile from the outer reaches of the solar system.” ...

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact ...

Carbon cycle modeling and paleotemperature records argue that an asteroid impact—not volcanic fumes—was the main driver of the dinosaur die-off. A former intern at The Scientist, Amy studied ...

Just over 66 million years ago, Earth’s fate changed dramatically with the arrival of a massive asteroid that slammed ... for the mass dying off dinosaurs and other ancient species.