In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth ...

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 collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research. The Permian–Triassic ...

A new study reveals that a major cooling event 34 million years ago caused staggered marine extinctions, not a single global ...

There might still be dinosaurs living on Earth today — if not for the giant asteroid. It’s a long-debated issue, but now researchers say the idea Dinosaurs were in decline before the Chicxulub ...

Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely explained, according to a theory put forward in new research.During the final stages of a ...

Massive volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the dinosaurs. This phase of active volcanism took place in a period just before ...

A meteorite hit Earth about 66 million years ago near what today is the Yucatán peninsula, causing widespread destruction and death. But almost simultaneously, intense volcanism covered a vast area of ...

Roughly 201 million years ago, the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event wiped out about 76% of all marine and land species on Earth. This cleared the stage for dinosaurs to take over for the next 135 ...