First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...

Abundant fossil bones, teeth, trackways, and other hard evidence have revealed that Earth was the domain of the dinosaurs ... to link the extinction event to a huge impact crater along the coast ...

The discovery of a prehistoric tail-shedding reptile reveals more about large lizard life and lineage during the Late ...

Meteor craters are incredible reminders of the powerful forces of nature and the history of our planet. These massive impact ...

Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past. They can help predict the future, too.

A new study challenges long-held assumptions about survival following a global catastrophe. If you're an animal trying to ...

Mass extinctions clearly upend the status quo. Now, our ocean floors are dominated by clams burrowed into sand and mud, the quahogs, cockles and their relatives – a scene far different from that of ...

It marks the catastrophic impact of a massive asteroid or comet approximately ... how scientists discovered the crater, the evidence linking it to the dinosaur extinction, and ongoing research ...

We believe the asteroid that ultimately delivered ... Two Asteroids, One Dinosaur Extinction: Second Crater Bolsters Double Impact Theory The two peat samples yielded a similar temperature timeline.

A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth. The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...

The asteroid responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs created a much larger crater – 160 km wide – at Chicxulub on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Dr Nicholson said the “closest ...