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Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that dinosaur diversity was declining before the asteroid struck 66 million years ...

The asteroid impact 66 million years ago was a turning point for life on Earth, leading to the extinction of dinosaurs while many mammals thrived. These smaller creatures found refuge underground and ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago The Chicxulub impactor At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million ...

Crocodiles remarkably survived the dinosaur-ending asteroid impact due to their ability to endure long periods without food ...

Dinosaurs appear to have been thriving before a giant asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, paleontologists working in New Mexico said Thursday in the journal Science. Experts have long debated ...

In the fifth episode of our Stones & Bones video series, National Geographic digital editor Nicholas St. Fleur explores how a ...

Drill cores at the impact site of the Chicxulub asteroid show evidence that, alongside widespread destruction, the collision created a vast underground ecosystem filled with hot water that sheltered m ...

New analysis shows several families of dinosaurs were likely thriving in North America in the latter days of the dinosaur era. Reading time 3 minutes Diversity is central to one of the biggest ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the ...

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 ...

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 ...