What really happened when the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago? Scientists from Purdue University ...

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

The asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs may have been far rarer, drier and less sulfur-rich than scientists once thought ...

Researchers identified the Chicxulub impactor as an exceptionally rare type of asteroid that wouldn't have triggered a mass ...

The dig (called Tanis by paleo experts) is conducted by a team led by Robert DePalma, a doctoral student at the University of Kansas. Another team notable is Dr Walter Alvarez, son of Luis Alvarez, ...

Researchers just uncovered more about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago - Findings really ...

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was likely an exceptionally rare CO chondrite from a distant region of the solar system. Its unusual chemistry suggests that planet-cooling dust and debris, ...

The dinosaur-ending meteor devastating may have been its angle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the final day of the Cretaceous period, some 66 million years ago, Earth was teeming with a dazzling variety of dinosaurs. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's imagining of a saprotrophic fungus. (Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) In the wake of the catastrophic ...

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago likely belonged to a rare class. The extinction occurred ...

Crocodiles remarkably survived the dinosaur-ending asteroid impact due to their ability to endure long periods without food and their presence in less-affected habitats. These ancient reptiles possess ...