Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

When the 7.5-mile-wide Chicxulub asteroid smashed into Earth 66 million years ago, it killed most living creatures within ...

Some bivalves, like true mussels, are flexible and can adapt to new roles. Others, like the rare glass scallops—bivalves that can both swim and eat meat—are extremely unique. If these rare species go ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...

The cataclysmic asteroid Chicxulub hit the Earth with a catastrophic impact, it obliterated the biggest and heaviest living ...

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

Asteroid hunter Jacqueline Fazekas started the evening of Sept. 4, 2024, much like she spends half of every lunar month: seated in front of the computer monitor at Mt. Lemmon Observatory near ...

The mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period is perhaps the most famous in history. Over 66 million years ago, a 15-kilometer-wide asteroid struck what is now Mexico and changed life on ...

The piece transports audiences into the prehistoric world, just before the Chicxulub asteroid struck earth 66 million years ...

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living species. The age of dinosaurs, which had lasted 165 million years, ended ...