Meteorite that killed dinosaurs also created life-supporting environment – study - Researchers said the findings could help ...

Drill cores at the impact site of the Chicxulub asteroid show evidence that, alongside widespread destruction, the collision ...

Palaeontologist Prof Steve Brusatte joins science correspondent Nicola Davis to trace the evolution of our feathered friends from their dinosaur origins ...

Darkness, not cold or acidification, was the main driver of marine extinctions after the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

The findings suggest that mass extinctions are not always caused by a single dramatic event.

When the asteroid finally reached Earth, those near the impact site would have seen a blinding fireball, heard a deafening ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a colossal asteroid, about 10km in diameter, struck Earth in the area of what is now the Caribbean, triggering instantaneous and catastrophic changes that led to the ...

About 66 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth in a very different environment than we see today, with some creatures demonstrating indomitable power, while others thrived in different ways.

Two scientists have described the bright fireball, crackling noise and sonic boom of the impact 66m years ago ...

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

Paleontologists in Egypt have stumbled upon an extraordinary fossil haul: nearly 500 fish frozen in time. The site, called ...

Flowering plants survived Earth’s worst disasters, including the asteroid strike that ended the dinosaurs, while many others ...