A University researcher found evidence that a new species evolved faster than previously thought after a mass extinction ...

Learn how the emergence of new plankton species started life's swift recovery after the asteroid impact that killed most ...

A new study shows that the event that wiped out the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species at the same ...

A new study using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) has revealed that the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 ...

When considering mass extinctions, people often think of the asteroid strike that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs. But life on Earth has experienced many extinction events. Now, a trove of fossils ...

Fossils reveal dinosaurs were flourishing in diverse ecosystems right up until the asteroid impact ended their reign.

Scientists have created a new map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, revealing further the events that led to the devastating mass ...

About 66 million years ago – perhaps on a downright unlucky day in May – an asteroid smashed into our planet. Even groups that weathered the catastrophe, such as mammals, fishes and flowering plants, ...

Sixty-six million years ago, the dinosaurs had a really bad day when a colossal asteroid impact spurred their extinction. But ...

A small, secretive group of lizards that still exists today may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the vicinity of the Chicxulub asteroid collision, which led to the ...

Alamosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs from southern North American. Paleontologists have recently dated the rock formation from where it was found in New Mexico to around 340,000 years before the ...

Sixty-six million years ago, Earth’s balance shifted in a single strike. The asteroid impact set off firestorms, blocked out sunlight, and left food chains in collapse. Dinosaurs and countless other ...