Scientists think they've found the origin of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. It could help prevent a future mass extinction on Earth.

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Many experts agree an asteroid led to the extinciton of the dinosaurs.

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Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Has a Bizarre Origin Story

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Illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

Stegosaurus Fossil Sells to Hedge Fund Billionaire for Record-Breaking $45 Million

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Apex the dinosaur fossil auctioned off for $45 million to Ken Griffin

Scientists discovered a new dinosaur species, and it could reshape the history of T. rex's evolution

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Scientists discovered a new dinosaur species that was comparable in size to T. rex.

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A tiny 'ice mouse' with teeth the size of sand grains survived some of the coldest temperatures when dinosaurs roamed the Earth

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A painting of Ugrunaaluk kuukpikensis, a duck-billed dinosaur, with an insert of the tiny Sikuomys mikros, a shrew-like animal, that illustrates a scene from ancient Alaska during the Cretaceous Period.
Sikuomys mikros would have had to dodge much-larger dinosaurs when it foraged for food.

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Award Winning Bird Images Are the Best Thing You’ll See All Day

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Photographers from around the world recently submitted 20,000-odd images of bird species to the Bird Photographer of the Year contest.

Dried-up Texan river bed reveals perfectly-preserved tracks of 111-foot-long dinosaur

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A three-toed track in the dried-up Paluxy riverbed, with some remaining water in the background, in Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, Texas, in August 2023.
A three-toed track in Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, Texas.

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A new fossil shows a prehistoric badger-like mammal and a dinosaur locked in 'mortal combat'

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A fossil of a Psittacosaurus dinosaur and Repenomamus mammal skeletons fighting, with the mammal on top and biting into the dinosaur
The Repenomamus is on top of the Psittacosaurus, biting into its ribs.

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12 most dangerous dinosaurs of all time, ranked by a paleontologist

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Children playing in a dinosaur exhibit in in Woodland Hills, California. A paleontologist has weighed in on which dinosaurs would be most dangerous to humans.

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Adam Driver asked NASA how it plans to save Earth from world-ending asteroids

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Adam Driver arrives at the UK Premiere of the film 'House of Gucci' at Leicester Square in London, Britain.

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