NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — The extinction of the dinosaurs may be ancient history, but that history continues to be rewritten, ...

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction event, marking the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods approximately 66 million years ago, stands as one of the most profound ...

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 massive trove of global fossil data has revealed variations in how elasmobranch species – sharks, skates, and rays – recovered after the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event. Among the ...

NSF: For decades, scientists have accumulated ever-larger datasets that suggest an enormous space rock crashed into the ocean off the Yucatan Peninsula more than 65 million years ago, resulting in the ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago triggered the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs, along with about three-quarters of the Earth’s animal species. A new Yale ...

An overhead shot of the prepared mammal skull fossils and lower jaw retrieved from Corral Bluffs. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 25, 2019 issue of Science, published by ...

For decades, scientists have accumulated ever-larger datasets that suggest an enormous space rock crashed into the ocean off the Yucatan Peninsula more than 65 million years ago, resulting in the ...