Then, a six-mile-wide asteroid struck Mexico’s Yucatán at 43,200 mph, releasing energy beyond all human-made explosives combined and reshaping life on Earth. Unlike many species that survived the ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the ...

Could an asteroid this size hit Earth soon? ... 3D anatomy of the Cretaceous–Paleogene age Nadir Crater, Communications Earth & Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01700-4.

Researchers found that night lizards survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous, despite living near the impact site in Mexico.

The end-Cretaceous extinction—the massive extinction event widely attributed to an asteroid impact that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs approximately 66 million years ago—had a profound ...

The Cretaceous period ended in a terrible disaster that had its origins beyond Jupiter. An asteroid more than six miles wide slammed into prehistoric Central America, kicking off a global heat ...

The newest addition to the tyrannosaur family tree is named Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, which translates to “dragon prince from ...

According to a widely accepted theory, the mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary was triggered by the impact of an asteroid at least 10 kilometres in diameter near Chicxulub on the ...

Item 1 of 2 An artist's impression of a large asteroid impacting at Chicxulub on the Mexican coastline, which caused the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, 66 million years ago, with the planet Mars ...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses 2032 asteroid collision 05:14. An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.004% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years ...