One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the ...

"It was only after the extinction of the dinosaurs that grapes started taking over the world." Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The extinction of ...

The Mass Extinction That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs Almost 66 million years ago, an asteroid hit Earth – and changed our planet forever. From tsunamis to shockwaves, join us on a journey through ...

On one infamous day in the late Cretaceous period ... bang” of modern bird evolution only after the rest of the dinosaurs died. For years the debate was as contentious as asking whether ...

Last Day of the Dinosaurs is a 2010 Discovery Channel television documentary about the extinction of the dinosaurs. It portrays the Alvarez hypothesis as the cause of extinction.

Faced with an evolving group of competing organisms -- the mammals -- perhaps dinosaurs were driven to extinction by competition. Packs of small mammals would have competed with dinosaurs for food.

Viewers can learn more about the collision in Dinosaurs: The Final Day when it airs on Friday 15 April, including the amazing finds made at the Tanis fossil site in North Dakota, USA. But how much ...

Did dinosaurs lose their dominance suddenly or gradually? Some scientists think the answer lies locked within the remnants of long-dormant volcanoes. Massive beds of ancient lava found around the ...

But then 66 million years ago, over a relatively short time, dinosaurs disappeared completely (except for birds). Many other animals also died out, including pterosaurs, large marine reptiles, and ...