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

Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to literally save the planet. Hit play on the player below to hear the podcast ...

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

The Ordovician Period was around 485 to 444 million years ago and had a thriving ecosystem beneath the water, before fauna ...

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

A fossil from British Columbia, originally discovered in the 80s, has finally been identified as a new species named ...

A massive asteroid, expected to be larger than San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, will pass close to Earth on June 5.

Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula and triggered the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs. Now, researchers have determined that the space rock ...

Not from an actual decline in population before the extinction event. Previous research had ... during the final six million years prior to the asteroid. The probability of finding dinosaur ...

In a new study published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers pieced together the chemical identity of the asteroid that fueled the planet’s fifth mass extinction event. The dino killer ...

Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to literally save the planet. Hit play on the player below to hear the podcast ...