About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico, forming the Chicxulub crater. This impact wiped out ...
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The Dinosaurs of North America Were Thriving Up Until an Asteroid Wiped Them Off the Face of the Earth, Scientists Argue
A new study of dinosaur biodiversity challenges the belief that the megafauna were on their way out 66 million years ago ...
Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, ...
Of all the mysteries surrounding dinosaurs, none has sparked more debate than how their era ended—was it a gradual decline or ...
A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...
A geology professor who joined the New Mexico State University faculty this year is the lead author of a new paper addressing ...
Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...
Creatures that had ruled the planet for more than 170 million years — from the gigantic sauropods that shook the ground to the fearsome tyrannosaurs — disappeared forever. However, this is not a story ...
On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...
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