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

A new study using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) has revealed that the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago caused only a modest decline in shark and ray species.

The idea that dinosaurs were already declining well before the asteroid impact 66 million years ago seems established. However, a recent study published in Science challenges this view, ...

Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that dinosaur diversity was declining before the asteroid struck 66 million years ...

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

A new study shows that the event that wiped out the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species at the same ...

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 ...

That killed T. rex? Berkeley team says it was it was a space impact after all. Feb. 7, 2013 — -- Go digging with dinosaur hunters and they will show you that the last of the Cretaceous beasts ...

The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil record from that time rather than a genuine ...

Scientists have created a new map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, revealing further the events that led to the devastating mass ...