Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

We’ve long heard that a meteorite likely wiped out the dinosaurs, but an international study is shedding light on how climate change may have played into the extinction of the dinos. A study recently ...

The asteroid released the equivalent of 10-billion nuclear bombs worth of energy when it struck Earth. The impact started a chain of events that wiped out 75% of all plants and animals at the time.

"The pace of change we’re seeing today is unlike anything we know of in the past 66 million years," said ecologist Jack Hatfield.

Scientific consensus has coalesced around the notion that a killer asteroid, measuring about nine miles in width, slammed into what is now the Gulf of Mexico around 66 million years ago and basically ...

Birds are today’s only living dinosaurs, but how did they survive the asteroid? Birds are the only dinosaurs still alive today, but how did they survive the asteroid? Most birds were wiped out, along ...

About 200 million years ago, the earliest dinosaurs had a lot of reptilian company. There were big crocodile-like creatures, ponderous plant-eaters, even four-legged runners with fierce, ...

The mass extinction that wiped out the last of the dinosaurs paved the way for humans to inherit the earth, according to paleontologist Hans-Dieter Sues. The reality of bizarre dinosaurs can be ...