Dartmouth-led research fortifies link between mega volcanoes and mass extinctions. What killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period?…
Research shows how the Gulf of Mexico survived a prehistoric mass extinction. According to research by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), an…
When the asteroid now known as the Chicxulub impactor fell from outer space and slammed into the Earth 66 million years ago, cockroaches were there….
Thriving in a Series of Sudden Global Chills That Killed Competitors Many of us are familiar with the popular theory of how the dinosaurs died…
As greenhouse gas emissions continue to warm the world’s oceans, marine biodiversity could be on track to plunge within the next few centuries to levels…
Mammals with larger brains than similar-sized related species were more likely to have survived extinction during the Late Quaternary (between 115,000 to 500 years ago)…
While the popular Netflix movie “Don’t Look Up” has raised public consciousness to the potential catastrophic effects of asteroid impact to planet Earth, new research…
Curtin-led research has revealed an increase in levels of both acid and hydrogen sulfide in the ocean was the double whammy that wiped out marine…
Tiny microbes belching toxic gas helped cause — and prolong — the biggest mass extinction in Earth’s history, a new study suggests. Generally, scientists believe…
Groundbreaking study confirms time of year when an asteroid wiped out dinosaurs and 75 percent of life on Earth. A groundbreaking study led by researchers…
There are two main reasons crocodiles survived the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. First, crocodiles can live for a very long time without food. Second,…
Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that two intense periods of volcanism triggered a period of global cooling and falling oxygen levels in…
‘The end-Permian is one of the best places to look for parallels with what’s happening now.’ The end-Permian mass extinction event of roughly 252 million…
A team of researchers publish a new study exploring the cause of the Late Ordovician mass extinction. We all know that the dinosaurs died in…
A sweeping analysis of marine fossils from most of the past half-billion years shows the usual rules of body size evolution change during mass extinctions…
Fossils from Duke collection uncover a previously unknown mass extinction event in Africa. Sixty-three percent. That’s the proportion of mammal species that vanished from Africa…
A team of paleontologists from the University of Washington and its Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture excavated four dinosaurs in northeastern Montana this…
Two hundred fifty-two million years ago, much of life on planet Earth was dying. In an event that marked the end of the Permian period,…
