Around 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid smashed into the Earth, marking the beginning of a mass extinction event during which three quarters of the plant and animal species on our planet are ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - It was, to put it mildly, a bad day on Earth when an asteroid smacked Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, causing a global calamity that erased ...

Researchers have uncovered the remains of a never-before-seen ancient creature in a discovery that sheds light on how a group of animals that includes dinosaurs and crocodiles survived the Earth's ...

Researchers have conducted the largest study ever on - all right, brace yourself - dinosaur poo. Yeah, no, it sounds a little messy. But as NPR's Geoff Brumfiel reports, the findings may shed new ...

“The Flintstones” may now be considered historical fiction. A new paper published in the journal Current Biology suggests that human ancestors lived with dinosaurs for a short time before the ...

It went down 66 million years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Hidden below the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the Chicxulub ...

There is probably no better example of the destructive power of space rocks upon our planet than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs along with three-quarters of Earth's plant and animal species ...