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

Planetary boundaries outline how far past pre-industrial conditions Earth can get before anthropogenic activity has ...

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

A new study challenges long-held assumptions about survival following a global catastrophe. If you're an animal trying to ...

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

"After the Cretaceous mass extinction, there was a total shuffle in which bivalves were doing what," Collins explains. "Most of the same taxonomic families survived, but their abundance and which ...

By the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, most of the survivors were the semiaquatic generalists and one group of aquatic carnivores. Nearly all of today’s 26 crocodylians are semiaquatic ...

Now, a University of Michigan study has identified important changes in birds' genomes sparked by the mass extinction, called the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, ultimately contributing to ...

But scientists debate if that’s sufficient evidence to conclude that Earth is undergoing a mass extinction event—or whether that ... an artist’s depiction of marine life during the Cretaceous Period ...

There are other factors that may also have contributed to the mass extinction. These include lava pouring into oceans, sea level changes and climate changes. The story of the end-Cretaceous ...

Around 66 million years ago, Earth endured a mass extinction event that marked the end of the Cretaceous and the start of the Paleogene period. Roughly 75% of all species vanished, including every ...

The Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction killed off ... he doesn’t believe it meets the bar for a sixth mass extinction. “No one has provided a quantitative analysis that has really shown that ...