When a city-size asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out the dinosaurs — and sent a monster tsunami rippling around the planet, according to new research. The asteroid, about ...
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What really happened after the dinosaurs went extinct?
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid as big as Mount Everest was headed on a deadly collision course with Earth. The ...
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 ...
When a six-mile-wide asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, it didn’t just wipe out the dinosaurs. New findings suggest the impact triggered a massive earthquake that shook the planet for ...
A timeline-driven account based on rock-core drilling and global sediment layers: the initial fireball, tsunami and shock waves, then a two-year “impact winter” from dust and sulfur aerosols—leading ...
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 ...
Dinosaurs appear to have been thriving before a giant asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, paleontologists working in New Mexico said Thursday in the journal Science. Experts have long debated ...
One of the biggest debates in the dinosaur world is what was happening right before they went extinct. Were they already declining, or would they have thrived if not for the asteroid? Two recent ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dinosaurs weren’t dying out before the asteroid hit—they were thriving in vibrant, diverse habitats across North America. Fossil evidence from New Mexico shows that distinct “bioprovinces” of ...
A ridge of rocks in New Mexico holds a snapshot of a dinosaur heyday. Fossils of crested hadrosaurs, long-necked sauropods and a variety of plants all point to a flourishing ecosystem. “Without this ...
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