Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

When we talk about mass extinction events, the first case that usually comes to mind is when an asteroid struck Earth about 66 million years ago and triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Earth’s climate over millions of years is shaped by both internal forces, like volcanic activity, and external ones, such as solar radiation changes. Scientists have synchronized ancient climate ...

Calcada illustration Most people know the theory that an asteroid smashed into Earth — hitting what is now the Yucatán Peninsula — and killed off many of the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. But ...

Many forms of knowledge work commonly performed by humans today will be eradicated by AI agents. Here's a view of the type of ...

and went extinct around 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, when a massive asteroid slammed into Earth. During the Triassic Period, when dinosaurs first evolved, all the ...