An asteroid slammed down and did away with all the dinosaurs, paving the way for such developments as the human race, capitalism, and posting on the internet: it’s the story we all know and love.

Apparently, the internet thought the asteroid obliterated every dinosaur on impact — like they all happened to be having a meeting in that exact spot. The online jokes have been great.

Experts now say dinosaurs would have likely continued to dominate the planet had it not been for the asteroid.

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 ...

Fossil records from North America indicate dinosaurs were still in their prime 66 million years ago, but the asteroid that struck Earth wiped them out anyway.

Dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, instead poor fossilisation conditions and unexposed late Cretaceous rock layers mean they're either not preserved or hard to find, as per a ...

The asteroid responsible for our last mass extinction 66 million years ago — wiping out the dinosaurs — originated from the far reaches of our solar system, unlike most asteroids that have ...

Scientists calculate that it was blasted into Earth by a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid or comet traveling 30 kilometers per second -- 150 times faster than a jet airliner.

Fortunately not – unlike the dinosaurs, we have a space programme. And today, this programme is attempting to actively deflect an asteroid from its trajectory. As part of my doctoral thesis at the ...