Dinosaurs extinction

The asteroid in question is widely believed to have slammed into Earth around 66 million years ago off the Yucatán Peninsula

It seems like play, but they're serious. Every year, at the Planetary Defense Conference, asteroid experts from around the globe run days-long simulations of asteroids headed for major cities. In 2019, it was New York City's turn.

A Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions. But she’s reopened that debate.

Brachiosaurus stood taller than most dinosaurs, on forelegs that were longer than its hind legs. Its long neck made it look like a giraffe.

Geophysicists are returning to Earth’s most famous cosmic bullseye. Around 7 April, from a drill-ship off the coast of Yucatán, Mexico, they will start to p

About 100,000 years of volcanic activity in India may have killed the dinosaurs through global warming and ocean acidification, new research suggests

Artwork of tyrannosaurs fleeing a hail of impact ejecta. Some 65 million years ago, the impact of an asteroid or comet with the Earth provoked one of prehistory's greatest mass-extinctions, when it wiped out the dinosaurs and many other species.

Extinction of the dinosaurs. Illustration of a large asteroid impacting the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of several kilometres per second.

The best-known mass extinction event, the Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction, wiped out all the dinosaurs on Earth.

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