One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Scientists have discovered new evidence that it wasn't just one asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

There has only been one dinosaur fossil found in Washington state, and it’s Kelly Milner Halls’ mission to tell you all about ...

The meteor’s impact triggered a cascade of effects. It kicked up so much dust that the sky darkened. As the sun dimmed, ...

Scientists have found that after the asteroid wiped out many plants, ants started farming fungi to help them survive and get ...

Launched October 19th, 2024, the GoogleDoodle celebrates the discovery and description of Staurikosaurus, one of the oldest ...

The museum that first opened in May 2023 near the Grand Canyon is home to over 7,000 fecal specimens called coprolites from ...

Dinosaurs certainly didn’t benefit from the ... Essentially, ants figured out farming millions of years before humans learned their version of it, much less existed as a species.

Miles McMahon, a 5-year-old nonverbal child with autism, was found dead in a Maryland pond after hours of search and rescue ...

Paleontologist Jason Poole is preparing the bones of his latest specimen — the 150-million-year-old M&M Quarry Allosaurus — ...

If dinosaurs died, how come there are birds ... scientists who specialize in bird evolution are trying to figure out why birds weren’t wiped out too. They piece together clues like fossils ...