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 ...

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 ...

The asteroid strike 66 million years ago is famous for leading the dinosaurs to extinction. But it didn’t only destroy. According to new research, it also opened the door for life to restart and ...

In the aftermath of the giant asteroid that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula about 66 million years ago, approximately 75% of all species on Earth were wiped out, including the dinosaurs. Among ...

Take a terrifying dive into a hypothetical scenario: What if the Chicxulub asteroid, the very object that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, were to hit Earth today? This video explores the ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — The extinction of the dinosaurs may be ancient history, but that history continues to be rewritten, thanks in part to a professor at New Mexico State University. As Chad Brummett ...

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Field Station: Dinosaurs, the animatronic Jurassic playground that has drawn visitors to Overpeck County Park in Leonia for more than a decade, will close after this weekend. But the roaring, ...

Where the space rock came from 66 million years ago that crashed and killed the dinosaurs. 66 million years ago a giant space rock crashed into our planet and killed the dinosaurs. In the span of just ...

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still ...

WACO, Texas — A new study published on Thursday, co-authored by researchers from Baylor University, New Mexico State University, the Smithsonian Institution and several international collaborators, ...

Two T. rex dinosaurs square up for a fight in an illustration. Dinosaurs in the Cretaceous were thriving until the Chicxulub asteroid initiated a mass extinction. Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library ...