Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...
The geological record suggests that meteorites larger than the one that killed the dinosaurs hit the early Earth at least every 15 million years. Life was resilient, Drabon said, but those impacts ...
This rapid cooling was driven by intense eruptions, evidenced by magnetic data from lava deposits. Following this mass extinction, dinosaurs emerged as the planet’s dominant species. Credit: ...
Dubbed the “Fighting Dinosaurs,” the fossilized scene shows a carnivorous Velociraptor locked in a deadly embrace with an herbivorous Protoceratops. The turkey-sized predator had embedded its ...
The first step in building paleo-inspired robots is to understand ... understand how giant dinosaurs walked and moved. But what is especially exciting to me is the potential of using robots ...
A paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London chronicles the age of the famous and fascinating massive reptiles Allosaurus Riley Black Science Correspondent Dinosaurs thrived on our ...
The S2 meteorite — about 200 times larger than the Chicxulub asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs — stirred the proverbial pot, triggering a tsunami that dispersed land debris into coastal regions. The ...
HONG KONG, Oct 25 (Reuters) - The first dinosaur fossils found in Hong Kong, likely from a large dinosaur, were put on display on Friday after they were found on a small, uninhabited outlying ...
An exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur tail was discovered offering exciting insights into what they really looked like. In 2016, a specimen dating back to over 99 millions years ago was uncovered ...
Dinosaur fossils have been discovered in Hong Kong for the first time, on a remote island in the financial center’s countryside. The fossils were found on Port Island, an uninhabitable expanse ...
However, that’s exactly what happened earlier this week, when archaeologists unearthed a collection of dinosaur bones on Chek Chau, a 689 acre island in the Tolo Channel, just off the coast of ...
There is probably no better example of the destructive power of space rocks upon our planet than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs along with three-quarters of Earth's plant and animal ...