He said that the situation worked like a thermos designed to both keep liquids hot or cold for hours. After the infernos ...

Dinosaurs may have met their end not over months or years, but in the span of a brutal afternoon. A new study in the Journal ...

Scientists have long speculated that the demise of the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago was due to starvation triggered by ...

The asteroid linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs was not an ordinary space rock. New research suggests that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression of the last dinosaurs from southern North America features a long-necked Alamosaurus. - Natalia Jagielska A ...

Rocks formed immediately before and after non-avian dinosaurs went extinct are strikingly different, and now, tens of millions of years later, scientists think they’ve identified the culprit—and it ...

Fine asteroid dust may have trapped intense heat near Earth’s surface, killing exposed animals and starting widespread fires.

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

Purdue planetary scientists Brandon Johnson and Alexandria Johnson discovered that the Chicxulub impact created a global dust ...