In the study, "Night lizards survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction near the asteroid impact," published in Biology Letters, researchers combined phylogenetic tip-dating with ...

A dinosaur fossil has been found in an unlikely way in an unlikely place, a hole drilled under the parking lot of a Colorado ...

The end of the Cretaceous was marked by a giant asteroid strike in the vicinity of Yucatán peninsula in Mexico, which left a crater over 150 kilometres wide and caused the extinction of most of ...

DENVER — Museums are full of treasures untold, even in the most unlikely of places, like a parking lot.

Imagine the sound of a dinosaur roaring... Super loud, right? Wrong... It turns out the giant prehistoric creatures almost ...

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 ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...