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An asteroid ended the age of the dinosaurs. But how did their reign begin? Mysterious early reptiles may hold the answer
A small but fierce jawbone sits in Argentina’s natural science museum in Buenos Aires. Six inches long and studded with ...
After the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Wrecked the Planet, Life May Have Bounced Back Surprisingly Fast
Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...
Dinosaur Discovery on MSN
Why 'Hell Creek' may hold the final chapter of the dinosaurs
Hell Creek is one of the few places where fossils capture life just before a mass extinction The site contains remains of dinosaurs that lived during Earth’s final moments of the Cretaceous Some layer ...
The catastrophic impact of an asteroid 66 million years ago brought death and devastation on Earth—but also fascinating new life.
Netflix has just released the official trailer for The Dinosaurs, a four part documentary series created by legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg. The series arr ...
Lovecraft—“We are summoning the demon,” Elon Musk warned in a typical early pronouncement—the AI industry has pivoted from the language of nightmares to the stuff of comas. Driving innovation.
Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...
The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.
Narrated by the soothing voice of the Oscar-winning Morgan Freeman, this four-part natural history series is brought to us by Industrial Light & Magic, employing the finest in next-generation CGI ...
Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...
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