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

Mass extinctions clearly upend the status quo. Now, our ocean floors are dominated by clams burrowed into sand and mud, the ...

For decades, scientists have debated the true cause behind the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs, and in this video, we finally explore the REAL reason they went extinct. While the asteroid impact ...

While we often think about the impact of life on land, such as the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs, the asteroid strike also had a severe impact on life in the sea. "We know that the asteroid ...

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

The most notable feature of the recovery from this extinction event was the rise of the dinosaurs. On the land, they proliferated, filling many of the vacated ecological niches. Thanks to the ...

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 ...

New research has scoured through the evolutionary history of fruit and seeds to determine when and how they changed in size over time, confirming that dinosaur extinction led to the growth of large ...

While volcanism caused a temporary cold period, the effects had already worn off thousands of years before the meteorite, the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event, impacted. Massive ...

The asteroid that killed most dinosaurs 66 million years ago left ... taken from several locations dating to the time of the mass extinction. In particular, they looked at the element ruthenium.