Sixty six million years ago, just off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in what is now the North East coast of modern Mexico ...

An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric ...

New analysis shows several families of dinosaurs were likely thriving in North America in the latter days of the dinosaur era ...

A hydrothermal system near the coast of Mexico, caused by the same asteroid event that killed the dinosaurs, lasted 700,000 ...

A groundbreaking study on dinosaur populations leading up to their extinction points to sampling biases within the fossil ...

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs ...

Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the ...

It is very difficult to know exactly the history of the Earth. For millions of years, the planet was inhabited by species ...

"Dinosaurs were probably not inevitably doomed to extinction at the end of the Mesozoic," Chiarenza said. "If it weren’t for that asteroid, they might still share this planet with mammals ...

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