A University researcher found evidence that a new species evolved faster than previously thought after a mass extinction ...
CT scans also indicate Archaeopteryx had nerve endings in the end of its beak—part of what’s known as a bill-tip organ. Again ...
Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), an ...
Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season ...
But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...
In the aftermath of the giant asteroid that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula about 66 million years ago, approximately 75% of all species on Earth were wiped out, including the dinosaurs. Among ...
They survived the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, but something else sealed their fate just a few hundred thousand years later. Ammonites were among the most successful and resilient marine ...
The asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs unleashed more energy than any event in Earth’s history. Scientists now question whether the force was powerful enough to launch debris far beyond the ...
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) praised President Donald Trump’s teased healthcare plan, comparing its effect to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Speaking on Tuesday after Trump said he would pursue ...
Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Alamosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs from ...
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 ...