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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 ...

New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

A new study indicates that dinosaurs may not have been declining before the asteroid strike that killed them off 66 million years ago. According to the study, instead of showing evidence of decline, ...

What caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? The first thing that might come to mind is a meteorite crashing into the Earth. Assistant Professor Honami Sato, a geology researcher at the Faculty of ...

Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden extinction led to wide-scale changes in landscapes—including the shape of rivers—and these changes are reflected in the geologic record, ...

The end of the Cretaceous period saw disastrous geological and astronomical events, but researchers say that one in particular is to blame for the mass extinction. Reading time 3 minutes For years, ...

DALLAS - A meteorite hit Earth 380 million years ago with such force that it may have been responsible for the great extinction that occurred around that time, researchers have found. In Friday's ...