The Chicxulab asteroid, which smashed into the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago with devastating results, put paid to the dominance of the dinosaurs - although by that time some had already ...

Two asteroids that were almost as big fell to Earth 35.65 million years ago, ... The events took place within 25,000 years of each other. One asteroid's diameter was between 5 and 8 kilometers ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an asteroid the size of a city collided with Earth. The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, was somewhere between 10 and 15 kilometres in ...

Sixty-six-million years ago, a nearly nine-mile-wide asteroid collided with Earth, sparking a mass extinction that wiped out most dinosaurs and three-quarters of the planet’s plant and animal ...

Two enormous asteroids that struck Earth about 36 million years ago did not cause any long-lasting shifts to our planet's climate, according to new research. The space rocks, both estimated to be ...

When humans began farming crops thousands of years ago, agriculture had already been around for millions of years. In fact, several animal lineages have been growing their own food since long before ...

Two asteroids that were almost as big fell to Earth 35.65 million years ago, but their effect was very different. Despite the devastation, it appears that they cause no long-term changes to the ...

The Chicxulab asteroid, which smashed into the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago with devastating results, put paid to the dominance of the dinosaurs - although by that time some had already ...