A giant asteroid impact ended the age of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. How did this mass extinction play out, moment by ...

That day is the center of “Impact: The End of the Age of the Dinosaurs,” a new exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. “There’s no doubt — well, arguably at least — that ...

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City has opened a new exhibition that takes a multidisciplinary perspective on the asteroid strike that ended the Cretaceous period and killed ...

When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after ...

A new study suggests that dinosaurs likely weren't in decline before an asteroid wiped them out 66 million years ago; instead, there may just be limited fossils from that time period, challenging 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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. An international team of scientists has discovered a fossil graveyard containing what it describes as "extraordinary evidence" ...

The age of the dinosaurs ended 66 million years ago with the ultimate bad day, not a prolonged period of climate change wrought by volcanic activity, according to new research. The city-size asteroid ...

(CNN) — It’s a long-standing debate in paleontology: Were dinosaurs thriving when an asteroid hit Earth one fateful spring day 66 million years ago, or were they already on their way out, and the ...

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still ...