New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

A small but fierce jawbone sits in Argentina’s natural science museum in Buenos Aires. Six inches long and studded with backward-curving fangs that would have hooked into flesh to rip it open, the ...

Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that dinosaur diversity was declining before the asteroid struck 66 million years ...

There was a time when the planet was crawling with enormous dinosaurs, the next, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit, and life ...

Sixty six million years ago, a colossal asteroid crashed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. It triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs and wiped out most life on Earth. But what if ...

A new study shows that the event that wiped out the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species at the same ...

Read full article: 500 crashes in 5 years on this Metro Detroit freeway -- Resident calls it a ‘drag strip’ Near record low temperatures to end the work week Scientists have long debated whether ...

Scientists know dinosaurs ceased to exist at the end of the Cretaceous period, but the details surrounding their vanishing act are a bit fuzzy. Some computer models suggest that a volcano, not a ...

Roland, 4, was attacked by two dogs on Nov. 20. 12 minutes ago ‘Our lives changed in an instant’: Family asks for help after 4-year-old boy loses his ear in Jacksonville dog attack Read full article: ...