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

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

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 ...

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

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...