Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...

The Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction, occurring approximately 66 million years ago, represents one of the most dramatic biotic crises in Earth’s history.

The piece transports audiences into the prehistoric world, just before the Chicxulub asteroid struck earth 66 million years ...

Citation: “The end-Cretaceous mass extinction restructured functional diversity but failed to configure the modern marine biota.” Edie, Collins, and Jablonski, Science Advances, May 21, 2025.

Citation: " The end-Cretaceous mass extinction restructured functional diversity but failed to configure the modern marine biota." Edie, Collins, and Jablonski, Science Advances, May 21, 2025. Funding ...

Using an innovative "digital fossil-mining" approach, researchers have uncovered hundreds of previously hidden fossil squid beaks, revealing a record ...

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

Yucatan's Chicxulub crater marks one of our universe's most momentous historical events: when an asteroid strike killed 75% ...

Learn about the mass extinction event 66 million years ago and the evidence for what ended the age of the dinosaurs.

Bivalves had an amazing array of life modes just before the end-Cretaceous mass extinction 66 million years ago. Incredibly, despite the loss of 70% of their species, all but two modes of life ...