Fossils reveal dinosaurs were flourishing in diverse ecosystems right up until the asteroid impact ended their reign.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's been 66 million years since dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and many may blame an asteroid's explosive collision with our planet ...

The extinction of dinosaurs had a significant impact on the development of plants, a new study has shown. Experts at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) in the cities of ...

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 ...

A young scientist has described his astonishment at discovering a whole new species of dinosaur dubbed a “chicken from hell”. The discovery was made from fossils earlier thought to be of a juvenile ...

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the impacts of this ancient event, scientists hope to ensure that mussels, ...

Who knows what life would have looked like on Earth if an extinction-level event hadn't killed all of the dinosaurs? I highly doubt the dinosaurs would have let us evolve and take over the planet the ...

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Nearly 66 million years ago, a large asteroid hit Earth and contributed to the global extinction of dinosaurs, allowing the rise of mammals and leaving birds as their only living descendants.

It's been 66 million years since dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and many may blame an asteroid's explosive collision with our planet for the end of the creatures' reign. But for years, scientists have ...