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

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 ...

For a long time, the prevailing theory was that dinosaurs were already in decline before the Chicxulub asteroid struck Earth approximately 66 million years ago, leading to the extinction of about 70% ...

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 ...

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

Nuclear war is much more unpredictable than asteroids, but, unlike the dinosaurs of 66 million years ago, humans can avoid ...

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 ...

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

When an asteroid as big as Mount Everest struck Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs and roughly ...

The discovery of traces of an asteroid in Hokkaido is the first-ever confirmation of such traces in Japan, according to the ...