A team of international researchers has uncovered new evidence that the Chicxulub meteorite impact, ...

The asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs also created an underground environment suited to supporting new ...

The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago is often remembered as one of the most destructive ...

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 ...

We tend to think of agriculture as a human innovation. But insects beat us to it by millions of years. Various ant species cooperate with fungi, creating a home for them, providing them with nutrients ...

An impact crater, believed to be associated with the “Great Dying,” the largest extinction event in the history of life on Earth — much earlier than the extinction of the dinosaurs — appears to be ...

Douglas McIntyre and David Callaway, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, discuss the alarming prediction that human activities could cause the extinction of 3,500 animal species in the next decade ...

The 5.3-mile-wide crater is now confirmed to be 66 million years old, suggesting that the impact of at least two giant space rocks preceded the mass extinction of dinosaurs. Reading time 3 minutes ...

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 ...

Scientists basically agree that an asteroid struck the Earth some 65 million years ago and its impact created the Chicxulub crater in Yucatan, Mexico. More controversial is the link between this ...