There might still be dinosaurs living on Earth today — if not for the giant asteroid. It’s a long-debated issue, but now researchers say the idea Dinosaurs were in decline before the Chicxulub ...

The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs left a massive buried crater off the Yucatan coast in Mexico. Known as the ...

So in one way, dinosaurs never went extinct; they just turned into birds. However, in the stricter sense of the word, dinosaurs had a whole combination of anatomical and behavioral characteristics ...

Dinosaurs may be long extinct, but 2025 made it abundantly clear that they’re anything but settled science. Over the past ...

The researchers are not the first to propose that the space rock belonged to a group of asteroids that formed beyond the orbit of Jupiter. Their findings, however, strengthen the case thanks to a rare ...

When the big asteroid hit Mexico 66 million years ago, it set off wildfires, tsunamis and massive clouds of dust that darkened the skies, killed much of Earth’s plant life and triggered a chain of ...

A site in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico is providing a rare glimpse into the last days of the dinosaurs.Rocks and fossils at the Naashoibito Member site show an ecosystem that was ...