Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused a mass extinction that wiped out 75% of Earth’s animal species, including all non-avian dinosaurs. But “night” lizards survived. A new Yale study has ...

Dinosaurs weren’t dying out before the asteroid hit—they were thriving in vibrant, diverse habitats across North America. Fossil evidence from New Mexico shows that distinct “bioprovinces” of ...

Scientists have unveiled the Nadir crater, a 5-mile wide undersea structure off the coast of West Africa, believed to have been formed by an asteroid impact that coincided with the extinction of the ...

An asteroid is expected to eventually hit Earth, highlighting the importance of preparing for such an event. This video ...

Sixty-six million years ago, Earth’s balance shifted in a single strike. The asteroid impact set off firestorms, blocked out sunlight, and left food chains in collapse. Dinosaurs and countless other ...

The end of the dinosaurs was clearly linked to an asteroid impact that brought the Cretaceous period to a close. But the details of their end have remained a matter of debate since the impact crater ...

The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs didn’t keep life down for long. New research shows that microscopic plankton began evolving into new species within just a few thousand years—and ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Alamosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs from ...