After the asteroid smashed into Earth around 66 million years ago, it didn't take life that long to rebound, a new study ...
A new scientific study reveals that life recovered much faster than expected after the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
A small, secretive group of lizards that still exists today may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the vicinity of the Chicxulub asteroid collision, which led to the ...
June 30, 2015, was the first “Asteroid Day,” when “people from around the world come together to learn about asteroids” and what can be done to protect the planet from asteroid and comet impacts, ...
Mass extinction events have repeatedly transformed life on Earth, eliminating dominant species and opening opportunities for new ones to evolve. One of the most dramatic occurred 66 million years ago, ...
The Chicxulub impact structure in Mexico is widely believed to be the site of the asteroid impact that allegedly killed the dinosaurs. As Sergio de Régules reports, scientists are now preparing to ...