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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research shows marine life evolved within 2,000 years after the dinosaur killing asteroid impact 66 million years ago. (CREDIT ...

A newly identified impact scar in southern China has turned a quiet patch of countryside into one of the most important natural laboratories on the planet. The Jinlin crater, a vast bowl gouged into ...

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

Earth is still collecting scars from space, and scientists are only now learning to read them properly. Newly mapped impact craters, both on land and hidden beneath the oceans, are revealing that ...

When the Chicxulub impactor hit, the animals that had the best chance of surviving turned out to be those with wings. See how new finds are reshaping the story of how birds evolved.

A massive meteor struck near Manson, Iowa, 74 million years ago, creating the U.S.'s largest impact crater and reshaping the region's geology and water quality in profound ways.

This piece is part of a special project on deep time examining what the Western U.S. was like thousands, millions and even billions of years ago, and how that history is still visible and ...

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

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

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 ...

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.