Asteroid that killed dinosaurs

Birds are the only dinosaur group that survived the terrible asteroid strike that caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs some 66 million years ago. Scientists have been puzzled for years about why birds, descendants of dinosaurs, survived while most others did not, including the fearsome giants that we know all about, Interesting Engineering reports. Now, two new studies have focused on one possible answer: molting.The importance of molting as survival mechanism after asteroid strikeMolting is when birds shed old…

There are various studies which show that an asteroid strike on the Earth caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs. While that was a fact, there was a lot of speculation about whether human ancestors were present during the age of dinosaurs or whetherthey came well after the catastrophic event. A recent study has made a shocking suggestion.According to the study by researchers from University of Bristol in the UK and the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, human ancestors such as dogs, bats, and humans co-existed…

Asteroids pose a clear and present danger to Earth. There have been many asteroid strikes and space agencies are finding new space rocks all the time. So, will an asteroid strike Earth? Did you know that space debris as small as grains of sand or pebbles in their thousands hit the Earth's atmosphere every day? The atmosphere works as a shield, burning up these space rocks. But this is not the case every time. Sometimes, there are meteors in our night sky which burn up high in the atmosphere, but other times huge…