All Living Snakes Evolved From a Few Survivors of Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs
Research from the Milner Center for Evolution suggests modern snakes evolved from a handful of ancestors that survived the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.
Dark Primitive Asteroids: Zeroing In on Source of the Impactor That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs
The impactor believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other life forms on Earth some 66 million years ago likely came from the outer half of the main asteroid belt, a region previously thought to produce few impactors.
The dinosaurs may have already been going extinct before the cataclysmic space rock hit Earth, new findings suggest
Some dinosaurs had already started to go extinct before the impact of the 6-mile-wide space rock that struck Earth 66 million years ago, research suggests.