Around 66 million years ago, springtime in the Northern Hemisphere brought disaster and mass death to Earth in the form of a giant asteroid impact that triggered a global extinction. After an asteroid ...

Scientists continue to refine techniques for understanding present-day changes in Earth’s environmental systems, but the planet’s distant past also offers crucial information to deepen that ...

In the Cretaceous period, Earth was plagued by widespread volcanic activity, oceanic oxygen depletion events, and mass extinctions. Fossils from that era remain and continue to give scientists clues ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

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An LMU team has studied the biodiversity of larvae from the insect order neuroptera over the past 100 million years. An LMU team has studied the biodiversity of larvae from the insect order neuroptera ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...

A new study finds that one of the hottest periods in Earth's history may have driven lampreys apart -- genetically speaking. The work could have implications for how aquatic species respond to our ...

Paleontologists typically unearth fossilized skeletal remains of ancient creatures, however, this time they found something unexpected — fossilized vomit. This 66-million-year-old fossilized vomit ...

Germany's waters once saw a recently discovered new reptile species known as the Enalioetes schroederi, best characterized as a crocodile which has dolphin-like qualities which lived around 135 ...