The extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs left enormous ecological opportunities behind. In the world that followed, surviving animals diversified into new forms and began occupying niches once ...
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.
The end, when it came, came suddenly. An asteroid or comet 10 kilometres across slammed into the Gulf of Mexico, gouging a 180-kilometre crater and unleashing firestorms, eruptions and mega-tsunamis ...
Researchers identified the Chicxulub impactor as an exceptionally rare type of asteroid that wouldn't have triggered a mass extinction in the way scientists previously thought. Reading time 3 minutes ...