The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula.

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the ...

A new museum at Rowan University in southern New Jersey—an area of considerable paleontological significance—offers a ...

The most significant asteroid so far to hit Earth was 66 million years ago. The mountain-size asteroid struck South America ...

A new study challenges the belief that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact that ended their reign. Analysing ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact ...

It’s fun to imagine secret dinosaur survivors living today, hidden in a remote corner of Earth. But the truth of who made it through the extinction event 66 million years ago may surprise you.

The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

A massive asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, triggering a chain reaction of global devastation. Yet some animals survived: mammals, turtles, crocodiles, frogs ...