The meteor’s impact triggered a cascade of effects. It kicked up so much dust that the sky darkened. As the sun dimmed, ...

Scientists in Brazil announced the discovery of one of the world's oldest fossils believed to belong to an ancient reptile ...

Scientists have revealed images of a second massive asteroid impact called Nadir Crater buried 300 meters under the ocean ...

A vast, ancient slab of seafloor plunged beneath the Pacific Ocean and has hovered in Earth’s mantle for more than 120 ...

For a long time, scientists have debated what caused the dinosaurs to die out 66 million years ago. Was it a huge asteroid or ...

One of the oldest fossils ever discovered in the world might just help paleontologists finally unravel the mystery of how ...

Evidence suggests that “the precursors to the dinosaurs and pterosaurs were much more diverse than previously imagined.” ...

A Stanford study challenges the expectation of large sediment deposits from a 34-million-year-old climate shift, finding ...

So far, what Gondwanax and its fellow silesaurids reveal is that the rise of the dinosaurs wasn’t a sudden, dramatic event.

Around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth, wiping out an estimated 75% of all animal species, including ...

An "agile and lightweight" predecessor to the dinosaurs - dating back 237 million years - has been discovered in Brazil.

Ants began farming fungi 66 million years ago post-asteroid impact, with leafcutter ants evolving advanced agricultural ...