Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) have compared the disaster caused by the Aznalcollar spillage in the Donana National Park in Andalusia 11 years ago with the biggest species extinction ...

The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of life on Earth. Vertebrate groups that dominated at the time, such as dinosaurs and ...

Study finds that the mass extinction caused by an asteroid about 66 million years ago led to critical changes in bird genomes that ultimately sparked the incredibly diversity living birds. Shortly ...

The transition across the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary, approximately 66 million years ago, marks one of the most profound mass extinctions in Earth’s history, characterised by the demise of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo taken on July 10, 2024 shows part of an Apatosaurus' dinosaur skeleton at the Dampierre-en-Yvelines castle in France ...

Fossils from the Jose Creek Formation in New Mexico reveal that angiosperms (flowering plants) had built dense, fruit-bearing ...

pt. 1. Articles of a general nature. Phanerozoic marine biodiversity : a fresh look at data, methods, patterns and processes / Martin Aberhan and Wolfgang Kiessling ; Coordinated stasis reconsidered : ...

A newly described dinosaur that appears to have persisted beyond a catastrophic die-off is forcing scientists to rethink how mass extinctions actually play out on the ground. Instead of a clean break ...

Shortly after an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, life for non-avian dinosaurs ended, but the evolutionary story for the early ancestors of birds began. The fossil record tells us ...