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

A great Tyrannosaurus rex strides through the conifer trees of her territory, sniffing the air. She picks up the scent from ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a huge asteroid famously hit the Earth, causing the extinction of dinosaurs and about half of ...

The asteroid impact that ended the age of dinosaurs released an unimaginable amount of energy in a matter of seconds. Some researchers have questioned whether debris from the blast could have been ...

The asteroid that smacked into our planet about 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary may have been bad news for dinosaurs, but it was good news for fungi. According to new ...

Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season ...

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 ...

Dante’s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially ...

Dante's description of the fall of Lucifer to Earth from heaven seems to sport many of the hallmarks of an impact, forming a ...

Most living organisms inherit two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent, but plants frequently undergo whole-genome duplication, in which their entire genetic code is copied. The process can ...

A new study suggests that duplicated genomes gave some flowering plants the genetic flexibility needed to endure Earth’s ...

Nagatitan provides insight into sauropod diversity in the region. Not many sauropods are known from Southeast Asia, and ...