In the icy wilderness of Antarctica, where glaciers now dominate the landscape, scientists have unearthed a fossil that ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico ...

Today’s extinction rates are sky-high. But scientists debate if that’s sufficient ... Today, the fossilized remains of these creatures are buried beneath a conspicuous layer of sediment or rock that ...

Several factors contributed to the survival of crocodiles, turtles, lizards and birds 66 million years ago, say our readers ...

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs ... measurements of sulfur within the related Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary layer, the international team ...

This is commonly referred to as the "Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event" (try saying that four times fast!). This theory was first made by the geologist Walter Alvarez and his father Luis ...

Extinction is a natural part of life on Earth. But occasionally, extinction rates have surged far beyond usual levels, driving mass extinction events that have reshaped the trajectory of life. After a ...

Around 66 million years ago, Earth underwent a catastrophic event that wiped out nearly 75% of all species, including the dinosaurs. This wasn't the first mass extinction in our planet's history ...

An asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico around 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...