An artist's imagining of a saprotrophic fungus. (Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) In the wake of the ...

About 66 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth in a very different environment than we see today, with some creatures ...

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

Scientists have created a new map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, revealing further the events that led to the devastating mass ...

Of all the mysteries surrounding dinosaurs, none has sparked more debate than how their era ended—was it a gradual decline or a sudden catastrophe? A new study led by Andrew Flynn of New Mexico State ...

A team of Japanese researchers has discovered traces of an asteroid collision in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido that may have caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs at the end of the Cretace ...

FUKUI -- A Tohoku University-led team said it has found in Hokkaido a layer showing the asteroid impact linked to the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million ...

Experts on meteoritics and palaeontology have created a detailed timeline to take you back to the very last day of the Cretaceous ...

Scientists have confirmed a massive impact crater, Nadir Crater, hidden beneath the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa using advanced 3D seismic technology. Estimated to be 9.2 km wide and formed around ...

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 ...