The Permian-Triassic extinction, aka the Great Dying, was the deadliest mass extinction event in the history of our planet. "All other theories that attempted to explain what killed the dinosaurs, ...

In Universal’s Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom, a massive volcanic eruption threatens to cover Isla Nublar in fire and send the dinosaurs into oblivion for the second time. It would have been a ...

According to their findings, the eruptions began roughly 400,000 years before the asteroid impact and continued for about 600,000 years after the end of the Cretaceous. Despite that overall ...

Massive volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the dinosaurs. This phase of active volcanism took place in a period just ...

For decades, there's been a debate over whether an asteroid or volcanic eruptions killed off the dinosaurs. Now, one group of scientists have decided to let a computer settle this.

Dinosaurs roamed the Earth 66 million years ago. A new study suggests that volcanic eruptions may ... It's similar to how some elements become trapped in cooling minerals after a volcanic eruption.

That was probably due to the volcanism – the timeline certainly adds up – but it was too early to wipe out the dinosaurs, the team argues. “These volcanic eruptions and associated CO 2 and ...

There's an area in China that's home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It used to be thought it was formed through a Pompeii-like volcanic eruption, stopping dinosaurs in their tracks. But new ...

Those details, plus the moisture of the sediment, suggest the animals were likely killed suddenly by their burrows collapsing rather than any major volcanic eruption.

Analysis from Dartmouth College removed human bias — finding volcanic activity in what's now India produced enough toxic gas to end the reign of the dinosaurs long before a meteor struck Earth.

There's an area in China that's home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It used to be thought it was formed through a Pompeii-like volcanic eruption, stopping dinosaurs in their tracks. But new ...