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.

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.

Dinosaur-killing asteroid created a tsunami with 2-mile-high waves Dinosaur-killing asteroid created a tsunami with 2-mile-high waves By Laura Baisas An asteroid didn’t kill the dinosaurs by itself.

The strike that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs, on energy concerns alone, could have been either a ~7 km comet or a ~10 km asteroid. When the rest of the evidence is examined, however, an ...

Dinosaurs may have been finished off with a killer asteroid, but new research shows that they may already have been headed for a disaster all their own.

Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that dinosaur diversity was declining before the asteroid struck 66 million years ...

The cataclysmic asteroid left deposits similar to those made by other asteroids from the outer solar system. The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid: Scientists Now Believe They Know Its Origin Story - CNET X ...

Scientists think they know the origin of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs German scientists found evidence that the space rock came from the outer limits of our solar system, well beyond ...