The catastrophic impact of an asteroid 66 million years ago brought death and devastation on Earth—but also fascinating new ...

After the asteroid smashed into Earth around 66 million years ago, it didn't take life that long to rebound, a new study ...

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

A small, secretive group of lizards that still exists today may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the vicinity of the Chicxulub asteroid collision, which led to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist's rendering of the Chicxulub asteroid entering Earth's atmosphere 66 million years ago, triggering events that caused a ...

When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after ...

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

A new scientific study reveals that life recovered much faster than expected after the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Rocks formed immediately before and after non-avian dinosaurs went extinct are strikingly different, and now, tens of millions of years later, scientists think they’ve identified the culprit—and it ...

Two new studies suggest that, contrary to longstanding belief, dinosaurs were not on the decline before the Chicxulub asteroid impact. Plus, a giant infrastructure project aims to block invasive carp ...