About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all ...

The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, was somewhere between 10 and 15 kilometres in diameter. The collision was devastating: rocks from deep within Earth’s crust were raised 25 kilometres ...

New research suggests the theory that dinosaurs were declining before Chicxulub is the result of a poor (and misleading) ...

Some 66 million years after the Chicxulub asteroid impact kickstarted the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-T) extinction, scientists are still finding stunning evidence of its destruction. In 2021 ...

The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less diverse ...

For decades, the prevailing theory behind the mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs has pointed to a ...

An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...

A devastating meteorite strike over three billion years ago may have been just what early life needed to thrive. While it’s ...

Now scientists have found extraordinary evidence which documents the colossal asteroid impact event. It was widely accepted that the Chicxulub meteorite impact was a major cause, as is evidenced by a ...

The model also revealed that the Chicxulub impact, when the Earth's surface and shape are considered, would have likely been too small to cause the Deccan Traps. Advanced Search Home ...