Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, flying at 27,000 mph (43,000 km/h), slammed directly into Earth. The impact ...

Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season instead brought mass death and carnage from Earth's catastrophic impact with a ...

That killed T. rex? Berkeley team says it was it was a space impact after all. Feb. 7, 2013 — -- Go digging with dinosaur hunters and they will show you that the last of the Cretaceous beasts ...

T. rex and Triceratops were both alive at the moment an asteroid collided with Earth 66 million years ago, but did it kill them? In the rocks across Montana, a mysterious layer is found separating ...

Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden extinction led to wide-scale changes in landscapes—including the shape of rivers—and these changes are reflected in the geologic record, ...

Today's living night lizards—like Xantusia vigilis (pictured)—are descendants of a common ancestor that lived roughly 90 million years ago, well before the Chicxulub asteroid struck Earth 66 million ...

Changes in rock formations from before and after the mass extinction event 66 million years ago may reflect how dinosaurs ...

Francisca Oboh Ikuenobe receives funding from the National Science Foundation, American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund, and International Continental Scientific Drilling Program. She is ...

An asteroid is the most likely reason the dinosaurs went extinct—but could something similar happen to us? A new study has compared the likelihood of a devastating asteroid impact to other causes of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck Earth around 66 million years ago was huge — around 7 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When it smashed into Earth "with the energy of about 8 billion times a World War II-era nuclear ...