About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico, forming the Chicxulub crater. This impact wiped out ...
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The Dinosaurs of North America Were Thriving Up Until an Asteroid Wiped Them Off the Face of the Earth, Scientists Argue
Sixty-six million years ago, life on Earth was paid a visit by a very unwelcome guest: the Chicxulub impactor, an asteroid ...
A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...
New fossils from New Mexico reveal dinosaurs were thriving—not dwindling—when the asteroid brought their reign to a sudden ...
Of all the mysteries surrounding dinosaurs, none has sparked more debate than how their era ended—was it a gradual decline or a sudden catastrophe? A new study led by Andrew Flynn of New Mexico State ...
What really happened around the time when the asteroid smashed into Earth 66 million years ago? Scientists may finally have ...
Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...
New dating has revealed that New Mexico's last dinosaurs were healthy, diverse and thriving at the end of the Cretaceous ...
Astronomers have identified a skyscraper-sized asteroid, 2025 SC79, orbiting incredibly close to the Sun and at a near-record speed. This 'twilight as ...
It looks like it could have been laid yesterday. But this incredible dinosaur egg, recently unearthed in Argentina, dates ...
After decades of debate, scientists have finally confirmed that the mysterious Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea was created by a massive asteroid impact around 45 million years ago. Credit: ...
Tiny flecks of white dot a section of crumbly rocks along Texas's Brazos River. To a casual observer, the grains may seem like unremarkable bits of sand, but within their oddball shapes lie clues to ...
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