In just a few years, according to this hypothesis, these frigid and sweltering climatic extremes caused the extinction of not just the dinosaurs, but of up to 70 percent of all plants and animals ...

For a long time, scientists have debated what caused the dinosaurs to die out 66 million years ago. Was it a huge asteroid or ...

Then, 65 million years ago, the dinosaurs vanished from the world forever. In the search for answers to what killed the dinosaurs, scientists have looked beyond fossils. Geological evidence also ...

The end of the Cretaceous Period saw one of the most dramatic mass extinctions Earth has ever seen. Find out what brought about the end of the dinosaurs and many other animals too. The fossil record ...

An curved arrow pointing right. British research discovered the disappearance of dinosaurs millions of years before they went extinct. Populations weren't multiplying as fast as they were dying off.

Dinosaurs were not the only species that were wiped out from Earth after the massive asteroid crashed over Earth. The giant structure tumbling through space was responsible for several other ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West ...

The massive asteroid that struck Earth and triggered the mass extinction of the dinosaurs is the reason we’re all here today, and if a new report on the impact is correct, it managing to ...

A terrifying simulation has revealed what would happen if the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit Earth now.