It lasted approximately 79 million years, from the minor extinction event that closed the Jurassic period about 145 million years ago to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event 66 million ...

A chilling new assessment suggests our planet is hurtling towards an unprecedented loss of life, with human activity squarely ...

The Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction ... the cumulative nature of stressors acting in the lead up to the extinction event [3]. Collectively, these studies provide an integrated perspective ...

There were consequences to this biological, geological, and climatic event. Below are the significant events of this period. The K-Pg (Cretaceous-Paleogene) Extinction Event Scientists called it ...

Known as the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (K–Pg), it has been immortalized in popular culture because of its association with the end of the dinosaurs' reign on Earth. That is why ...

including the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, arguably the best known because of the death of the dinosaurs. Now, researchers may have discovered a new mass extinction event, one that ...

At that point, as the Cretaceous ... the mass extinction was caused by an extraterrestrial object. The theory gained even more steam when scientists were able to link the extinction event to ...

About 66 million years ago, a 9-kilometer-wide asteroid slammed into Earth, creating the Chicxulub crater and triggering the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. Skies filled with soot and gas ...

Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction - 66 million years ago The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event is the most recent mass extinction and the only one definitively connected to a major asteroid impact.

The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event, as it is known, sparked drastic ecological changes around the world. This eventually led to the extinction of approximately 55-76 percent of ...

A massive trove of global fossil data has revealed variations in how elasmobranch species – sharks, skates, and rays – recovered after the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event.