Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. Sixty-six million years ago, the story of life on Earth took a dramatic turn when an asteroid collided with what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Chicxulub, Mexico. The aftermath of the collision resulted in … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. Sixty-six million years ago, the story of life on Earth took a dramatic turn when an asteroid collided with what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Chicxulub, Mexico. The aftermath of the collision resulted in … Read more
It may be hard to imagine, but dinosaurs did not once dominate their world. When they first arose, they were just small, two-legged carnivores, dwarfed by a wide variety of other reptiles. How did they come to power? My colleagues and I recently studied the fossilized bones of the earliest known dinosaurs and their non-dinosaur … Read more