The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in ...

What happened in the days, even hours, after an asteroid set off the fifth extinction? A New Jersey quarry, and site of a new museum founded by paleontologist Ken Lacovara, sheds light on the mystery.

Scientists had reportedly found a dinosaur that died the day the world ended. At a site in North Dakota, fossils were di ...

Not far from College Station, Texas, we saw an echo of the event that, 66 million years ago, radically changed life on Earth.

The Mass Extinction That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs Almost 66 million years ago, an asteroid hit Earth – and changed our planet forever. From tsunamis to shockwaves, join us on a journey through ...

On one infamous day in the late Cretaceous period ... bang” of modern bird evolution only after the rest of the dinosaurs died. For years the debate was as contentious as asking whether ...

So many extinction-level events happened in ancient times, it is a wonder anything survived. These the ones that killed the ...

Cristian Movilă Long known as Sacel, the castle was recently renamed for Baron Franz Nopcsa, a pioneering 19th-century dinosaur expert ... a notorious figure in his day. A wild genius with ...