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

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

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

Fossilized spores confirm that legions of fungi made a meal of Earth’s dying dinosaurs.

As their joints stiffened, they learned to fly through water. Wings became flippers. The evolution of flippers is a classic case of exaptation, a phenomenon in biology that has much to teach our own ...

Experts have revealed how the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs sparked a hellish apocalypse of supersonic winds, acid rain ...

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

Long before telescopes revealed an unruly Solar System, Dante Alighieri imagined something terrible falling from the heavens. In his 14th-century Inferno, the falling object was Lucifer, the Lord of ...

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

Two meteor showers, the Southern delta Aquarids and the alpha Capricornids, will peak simultaneously from July 30-31. The Perseids, considered the best meteor shower of the year, will peak between ...