First bird to roam Earth after dinosaurs were killed by asteroid revealed and it’s a relative of much-loved species
THE long-lost forefather of the beloved duck and goose has been discovered, after outliving the hardy dinosaurs. The ...
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Asteroid Has a 1% Chance to Impact Earth in 2032 — Should We Be Worried?
YR4, an asteroid that currently has a more than 1 percent chance to hit the Earth in 2032, catching the attention of ...
The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid May Not Have Been As Deadly as We Thought
Scientists have reevaluated the catastrophic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid that struck 66 million years ago, revising the ...
Cretaceous fossil from Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird
Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico ...
Asteroid That Wiped Out Dinosaurs Likely Came From the Outer Solar System
Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid with a diameter of about six miles crashed off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in ...
Fossilised 69-million-year-old skull of oldest known modern bird discovered
The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...
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Chicxulub: The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...
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A "city-killer" asteroid might hit Earth – how worried should we be?
A newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than 1% chance of colliding with Earth in ...
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New evidence suggests sulfur's role in dinosaur extinction was overstated
Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10–15 kilometers in diameter, struck the Yucatán Peninsula (in current-day Mexico), creating a 200-kilometer-wide ...
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What Killed the Dinosaurs?
This 150-kilometer-wide crater lies just off the Yucatan peninsula. Scientists calculate that it was blasted into Earth by a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid or comet traveling 30 kilometers per second ...