About 66 million years ago, Earth was struck by one of the most powerful events in its history. A massive asteroid, roughly ...

Flowering plants, or angiosperms, now dominate Earth’s flora, but biologists thought they truly took off only after an asteroid impact 66 million years ago. A ‘botanical Pompeii’ containing fossilized ...

A remarkable fossil forest reveals dinosaurs may have helped spread fruit-bearing plants tens of millions of years earlier ...