Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

Researchers found that night lizards survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous, despite ...

The cataclysmic asteroid Chicxulub hit the Earth with a catastrophic impact, it obliterated the biggest and heaviest living ...

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

Around 66 million years ago, a cataclysmic asteroid struck Earth, marking the end of the Cretaceous period and bringing about ...

A new study challenges long-held assumptions about survival following a global catastrophe. If you're an animal trying to ...

An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric creatures’ extinction wasn’t inevitable.

Chances of the space rock 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in December 2032 have been downgraded but debris could knock out ...

Mass extinctions clearly upend the status quo. Now, our ocean floors are dominated by clams burrowed into sand and mud, the quahogs, cockles and their relatives—a scene far different from that of the ...

Planetary boundaries outline how far past pre-industrial conditions Earth can get before anthropogenic activity has ...

A new study of ancient shells reveals that ocean ecosystems maintained balance after the dinosaur extinction 66 million years ago. Despite a significa ...