An illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula in what is modern-day Mexico. The asteroid responsible for our last mass extinction 66 million years ago — wiping out ...

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Scientists investigating the asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs after slamming into the Earth 66 million years ago have released a new study suggesting that it formed "beyond the orbit of Jupiter." The ...

New research suggests the asteroid impact that ended the age of dinosaurs occurred during Northern Hemisphere spring. Based ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) – It was a turning point in the history of life on Earth. An asteroid an estimated 6-9 miles wide slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, triggering a ...

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 ...

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(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 ...