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 ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the ...

Around 66 million years ago, Earth endured a mass extinction event that marked the end of the Cretaceous and the start of the Paleogene period. Roughly 75% of all species vanished, including every non ...

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 ...

Long before they became essential to tropical ecosystems, termites were just one group among many. New research led by the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: • Scientists discovered that life rebounded at extraordinary speed after the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, with new plankton species evolving ...

Learn about a small rodent-like mammal whose descendants survived the extinction event that killed all non-avian dinosaurs.

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact ...

WACO, Texas — A new study published on Thursday, co-authored by researchers from Baylor University, New Mexico State University, the Smithsonian Institution and several international collaborators, ...

Earth has a long and dramatic history, and one recurring theme is extinction. Did you know that over the last 500 million years, our planet experienced five major mass extinction events? These events ...