This new map of the megaripples can help predict the impact of future tsunamis, and to better understand the dinosaur extinction event, scientists say.

Carbon cycle modeling and paleotemperature records argue that an asteroid impact—not volcanic fumes—was the main driver of the dinosaur die-off. A former intern at The Scientist ... Amassive asteroid ...

According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur extinction came quickly, the impact must have spelled the cataclysmic end. For months, scientists conclude, dense clouds of dust blocked the sun ...

An curved arrow pointing right. British research discovered the disappearance of dinosaurs millions of years before they went extinct. Populations weren't multiplying as fast as they were dying ...

hangs above the dinosaur gallery.Credit...Graham Dickie/The New York Times Birds, which are dinosaurs that survived the mass extinction, still have ultraviolet receptors in their eyes. They see ...

Are humans doomed to share the fate of the dinosaurs? What may do us in isn’t a meteor, a nuclear holocaust or a superpandemic. And you can take comfort in the fact that the end won’t be ...

This is commonly referred to as the "Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event" (try saying ... It's thought that the meteor hit the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico (with the area now known as the ...

In Survive the Fall, a devastating meteor strike has all but wiped out civilization as we know it, leaving those who escaped annihilation to eke out an existence on a post-apocalyptic Earth ...