They’ve lived through the ice age, the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and brushed off an atomic blast just a mile away ...

The Chicxulub meteorite impact, rather than volcanic activity, was the principal driver behind the extinction of the ...

DINOSAURS survived a spate of violent volcanic eruptions often blamed for their extinction, a study has found. It adds ...

Scientists have discovered a mysterious asteroid-comet hybrid is 'like nothing seen before' in our solar system.

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the shape of ... According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur extinction came quickly, the impact must have spelled the cataclysmic ...

(Henry Sharpe) (CN) — An international team of paleontologists and ecologists hope their study, published Wednesday in Science Advances, will resolve the ongoing debate on the dinosaurs’ status before ...

Volcanic activity in India altered the climate but didn't kill the dinosaurs; the Chicxulub meteorite did, by triggering an ...

It’s the oldest known fossil tied to a modern bird group that survived the asteroid strike that wiped out all the non-avian dinosaurs. Not long after its discovery in the 1860s, the species was ...

NASA has announced that asteroid 2024 YL7, a 94-foot-wide space rock, will pass Earth on 4 January. Travelling at an incredible speed of 16,266 mph, this asteroid’s close approach highlights the ...

Discover why scientists now believe volcanic eruptions did not play a role in the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.

For many, the matter is settled – and there’s a huge crater down in Mexico to act as evidence. However, a minority of experts ...

LONDON -- A worker digging up clay in a southern England limestone quarry noticed unusual bumps that led to the discovery of a “dinosaur highway” and nearly 200 tracks that date back 166 million years ...