What we know about the colossal asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs

Sixty-six million years ago, a colossal asteroid, about 10km in diameter, struck Earth in the area of what is now the ...

North Dakota fossil site reveals when asteroid killed dinosaurs

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

What would it have been like to witness the asteroid that killed all dinosaurs?

Sixty-six million years ago, a huge asteroid famously hit the Earth, causing the extinction of dinosaurs and about half of ...
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The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have triggered a global fungal bloom

The asteroid that smacked into our planet about 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary may have been bad news for dinosaurs, but it was good news for fungi. According to new ...
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‘Earth in flames,’ Brian Toon and Alan Robock on whether humans will die from an asteroid or nuclear war first

Nuclear war is much more unpredictable than asteroids, but, unlike the dinosaurs of 66 million years ago, humans can avoid ...
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Mourning for dinosaurs, 65 million years too late

Dinosaurs have been fearsome and fascinating — but tragic? When science said dinosaurs were pea-brained and cold-blooded, humans took their demise as proof of the superiority of warm, clever mammals.