Dinosaur extinction was 'all about the asteroid,' casting doubt about volcano's impact, new study says By Chris Ciaccia Fox News Published January 17, 2020 11:05am EST ...

This, the researchers say, suggests that asteroid contributed little to past extinction events aside from the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. And even then, because volcanoes were also highly active ...

Stock image of a volcano (main) and dinosaurs (inset). The mass extinction just before the dinosaurs took over may have been caused by extreme cold rather than extreme warmth like originally thought.

New research points to volcanic activity as a major cause of prehistoric mass extinctions. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Along with carbon dioxide, volcanoes spew sulfur particles ... that ensued during the end-Triassic mass extinction, Olsen and colleagues say. Dinosaurs might then have been able to spread rapidly ...

The ancient volcanoes in that area ... Among the most significant mysteries of the end-Triassic extinction, however, is why dinosaurs and pterosaurs fared so much better than so many of their ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

The theory gained even more steam when scientists were able to link the extinction event ... one paper suggesting the volcanoes played a supporting role in the dinosaurs’ demise by causing ...

Volcanic rock is formed when volcanoes erupt ... it lines up with when scientists think dinosaurs, and lots of other species, became extinct. The Deccan Plateau is just one piece of the evidence ...

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

While the age of dinosaurs is long past us, Pilot Knob remains as an extinct volcano in southeast Austin, described by local geologists as a window into history. “If I were giving a tour for ...