On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

This finding has shed new light on the evolutionary past of birds and revealed critical information about their survival and ...

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of ... related Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary layer, the international team has demonstrated ...

This impact triggered a chain reaction of destructive events, including a rapid climate change that eventually led to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs ... K-Pg boundary layer in ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

A 183-million-year-old fossil with exceptionally well-preserved soft tissues has revealed that some plesiosaurs were covered ...

A 68-million-year-old Antarctic fossil revealed the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis iaai, a duck-sized diver with traits linking it to today’s waterfowl.

Researchers predict that a collision with the asteroid Bennu would plunge Earth into a year's long 'impact winter'.

This impact triggered a chain reaction of destructive events including a rapid climate change that eventually led to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs ... K-Pg boundary layer in ...

They compared data with the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary layer. The results ... may affect the way other mass extinction events are interpreted. Read also: Dinosaur extinction paved the way ...

CELINA - Though dinosaurs are the most notable of the prehistoric animals, smaller mammals and fish walked and swam in Ohio, ...

Discover what the prehistoric world was like and how it changed between when dinosaurs first appeared and the mass extinction at the end of the ... Europe was made up of many smaller islands. Thick ...