Sixty-six million years ago, life on Earth was paid a visit by a very unwelcome guest: the Chicxulub impactor, an asteroid that infamously wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs. The state of dinosaurs ...

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 ...

The Cretaceous Era—roughly 145 to 66 million years ago—was the last hurrah of the dinosaurs. A massive asteroid impact brought them to a violent end, but there’s more to the story. The Cretaceous ...

Where the space rock came from 66 million years ago that crashed and killed the dinosaurs. 66 million years ago a giant space rock crashed into our planet and killed the dinosaurs. In the span of just ...

Dinosaurs weren’t dying out before the asteroid hit—they were thriving in vibrant, diverse habitats across North America. Fossil evidence from New Mexico shows that distinct “bioprovinces” of ...

The meteor that made that made the dinosaurs go extinct could have made a tsunami much bigger, and much more devastating, than it was.