An asteroid that struck Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago left a long trail of destruction in its wake, new research ...

A timeline-driven account based on rock-core drilling and global sediment layers: the initial fireball, tsunami and shock waves, then a two-year “impact winter” from dust and sulfur aerosols—leading t ...

Sixty six million years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount Everest hurtled toward Earth, setting in motion an extinction event that would change life forever. The impact wiped out the largest and ...

Millions of years before jazz filled New Orleans streets or fishing boats were harvesting shrimp in the Gulf, Louisiana was home to terrifying sea monsters, a tenacious mammal and a seismic cataclysm ...