Scientists may have solved a 66-million-year-old mystery: how crocodiles survived the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

The story of the dinosaur extinction gets retold so often that it starts to feel like settled trivia: a rock falls from the sky, the dinosaurs die, the end. Scientists have spent decades checking that ...

A climate-modeling study suggests that following warm-climate refuges may have helped crocodilian relatives survive the ...

Around 250 million years ago, crocodiles and their archosaur relatives faced a significant extinction event. Their survival ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the ...

The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs may have set the stage for ants to conquer the planet, with a surprising boost from ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the impacts of this ancient event, scientists hope to ensure that mussels, ...

When Catastrophe Strikes: The Chicxulub Impact The story begins with an asteroid more than 6 miles (over 10 kilometers) wide ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tuna evolution after asteroid extinction unfolded slowly, as size and warm-blooded traits appeared millions of years apart.

If you’ve already heard that dinosaurs are extinct — and the betting is that you have — you’ve probably also heard the reason: an asteroid smashed into Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula some 65 million years ...

A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the predator Dinogorgon, whose skull is shown ...