Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists say the "unique" fossil find shows they were in fact blooming 10 million years before dinosaurs were wiped out.

A unique cache of plant fossils from volcanic deposits in New Mexico contradicts the common narrative that flowering plants ...

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

This year’s Asteroid Day has planned events worldwide and online. It acts as a reminder about advances in planetary defense.

Is that an apocalyptic asteroid blazing overhead? What else could explain why some of the nation’s most rip-roaring dinosaur ...

The asteroid whose fall led to the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago could simultaneously create an underground environment suitable for life for millions of years. This was reported on ...