After years of detective work, University geosciences professor Gerta Keller and her colleagues have found that an intensive period of volcanic eruptions and a series of asteroid impacts likely ended ...

New research indicates that dinosaur populations in North America were thriving just before the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, which triggered their mass extinction. This finding offers a fresh ...

The end of the Cretaceous period saw disastrous geological and astronomical events, but researchers say that one in particular is to blame for the mass extinction. Reading time 3 minutes For years, ...

Dinosaurs weren't in decline when an asteroid smashed into Earth and wiped them out, scientists say. Instead, the idea that dinosaur diversity was declining before the asteroid struck 66 million years ...

"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies." ...

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 ...

An ancient predatory dinosaur that lived 220 million years ago, Maleriraptor kuttyi, redefines carnivorous dinosaurs' origin ...

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may not have been the whopper scientists thought. Analysis of chemical remains of the asteroid that can still be found in sediments under the sea shows the ...

Massive volcanic eruptions did not cause the extinction of dinosaurs, according to a new study. Volcanoes on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the ...

We all know the most popular theory about dinosaur extinction, which is a massive asteroid hitting Earth and wiping out […] ...