A meteorite slammed into Western Australia billions of years ago. Or did it?

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico, forming the Chicxulub crater. This impact wiped out ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Dinosaurs of North America Were Thriving Up Until an Asteroid Wiped Them Off the Face of the Earth, Scientists Argue

A new study of dinosaur biodiversity challenges the belief that the megafauna were on their way out 66 million years ago ...
Science Daily

Hidden 5-mile wide asteroid crater beneath the Atlantic revealed in stunning 3D

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...
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New Mexico fossils show dinosaurs thrived before extinction

Recent fossil discoveries in New Mexico have provided compelling evidence that dinosaurs were thriving just before the ...

Dinosaurs thrived until the end: New Mexico fossils rewrite extinction story

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 ...

Scientists find remains of the last surviving dinosaurs: Fossils confirm the creatures were in their prime when the asteroid hit 66 million years ago

What really happened around the time when the asteroid smashed into Earth 66 million years ago? Scientists may finally have ...

New evidence reveals dinosaurs were thriving right up to the moment the asteroid hit

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...
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Rare fossils in New Mexico reveal dinosaurs were doing just fine before the asteroid annihilated them all

New dating has revealed that New Mexico's last dinosaurs were healthy, diverse and thriving at the end of the Cretaceous ...