Scientists are using fossils to help uncover how ancient life survived mass extinction, offering insights for modern ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...

Around 201 million years ago, at the dawn of the Jurassic Period, a different mass extinction allowed dinosaurs to become the “terrible lizards” we so adore. Of the five mass extinctions that ...

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

The international team of researchers are the latest experts who claim that the world the dinosaurs roamed was one teeming with critical levels of sulfur that set the stage for their extinction.

The research supported the theory that the extinction of dinosaurs set off events that led to widespread growth of fruit. A butterfly beating its wings can alter the trajectory of the universe ...

Now, new research published Tuesday (April 8) in the journal Current Biology suggests that the apparent rarity of dinosaurs before their extinction may simply be due to a poor fossil record.

“Dinosaurs were probably not inevitably doomed to extinction at the end of the Mesozoic. If it weren’t for that asteroid, they might still share this planet with mammals, lizards, and their ...